Vernon I was rather a troublesome boy, frequently involved in controversies with the teachers, and sometimes punished in the old-fashioned way with the ferule and the switch, which habit I then regarded as tyrannical and now regard as impolitic.
Sherman critiques the disciplinary methods used in schools during his youth, expressing his belief that they were harsh and ineffective.
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