ABSTRACT
On the psychodramatic stage of J. L. Moreno, the schoolmaster plays out a drama of his own which is probably neither wholly tragic nor wholly comic. In so doing he may learn how he appears to other people and to what extent he is personally responsible for the misfortunes which assail him. In the psychodrama, the student, by playing the role sometimes of a teacher and sometimes of a pupil, comes to realise more clearly why children assume certain patterns of behaviour in one classroom and not in another. The student who played the role of the teacher was a mathematician whose lessons savoured rather of the drill yard and whose motto was ‘Discipline at all costs’. He spoke in a hard, metallic fashion and though at heart a kindly man who liked children he always conveyed the impression of being determined to give no quarter.
