ABSTRACT
T His chapter will describe various aspects of the system of training which today implements the principles set out in the preceding chapter. But the task is not easy. All the parts of the system form an integrated whole, and are not easily separated for convenient description: this section heading does not imply that the other sections are not equally concerned with character training. Methods are fluid, and what is done one way today may be done quite differently tomorrow. And above all they are elastic: within the general framework of the principles and the Ruies, Governors are allowed, indeed encouraged, to use their own initiative and to act—within reason—according to their own faith and personal disposition. In a system which relies primarily on personal influence those exercising that influence cannot be required to use slide-rule methods. So even within one Borstal housemasters have a good deal of latitude to run their houses in their own ways. So too each member of the staff will exercise his control and impart his instruction in a personal relationship varying with each of the varying individuals with whom he must deal.
