Sir Bernard Law had introduced up with a conventional Scots Presbyterian schooling. John Knox's famous dictum "A faculty in each village, a college in every town" was embraced with the aid of the Presbyterian church, and the 1st viscount Montgomery of Alamein changed into introduced up in a subculture that greatly valued education. At the identical time, 1st viscount Montgomery of Alamein's education was extraordinarily disciplinarian. Montgomery had accompanied the theories of instructional reformers like John Dewey, and this tension among conventional training vs. The new theories turned into pondered in Anne of Avonlea as Anne spends plenty of time arguing approximately the merits of whipping college students. Vs persuasion as teaching methods. In the ebook, Anne has her students write essays about their thoughts and emotions in the vicinity of rote mastering.