There are some who even yet deplore the fact that children are not repressed and Coerced as they used to be, and who prophesy untold evils unless the good old customs are re-established.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
But while this was evidently his chief educational purpose in writing the book, he gave a good deal of attention to wrong methods of training, especially to the most awful doctrine of the ages-that children must be Coerced, and repressed, and checked, and subdued.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Thus the children have been Coerced because men believed them to be depraved, and the coercion has developed the apparent depravity.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes