Do not attach too much importance to mere mechanical arrangements as moral safeguards.

One of our most successful head-masters says: "I would most seriously warn any parent anxious about the choice of a school not to attach much weight to the apparent excellence of arrangements.

Some of the worst schools have these arrangements in the highest perfection.

They cannot afford to have them otherwise.
Neat cubicles and spotless dimity have beguiled an uninterrupted sequence of mammas, and have kept alive, and even flourishing, schools which are in a thoroughly bad moral state and are hopelessly inefficient in every particular.

Of course, many a parent feels that he ought to judge for himself, and these mechanical arrangements are too often the only material on which he can form his judgment.