Raleigh Times
Dr. Sawnie Web, who at Bell Buckle, Tenn, has conducted for a generation one of the best preparatory schools in the whole country, holds by the classics and corporal punishment. In an interview given a reporter of The Greensboro News Dr. Webb concedes that he doesn’t use the hickory often; but, he says that it is still kept handy.
He believes in discipline that is arrived at through co-ordination of body and mind, and he has only amused pity for an elective system for immature students. Why set out to teach them if you don’t know something more of what they should have than they do? That expresses the Webb school idea.
At Bell Buckle Latin, mathematics, history and English are required. Tasks are imposed and the boys do them. They are given some thing that Dr. Webb knows has helped young minds and old for hundreds of years—something that will better fit any boy for any vocation.
But then Dr. Webb is an old-fashioned teacher—not a professional wet nurse. It could be wished that the schools of the country were full of such.
From the editorial page of the New Bernian, November 12, 1924
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