Anticipated inspection alone can discipline pupils into habitual cleanliness

Evidence

It is wished to know that the hands of every boy in school are clean, a command is given ‘show fingers’, each pupil at once holds up his hands and spreads open his fingers. The monitors pass between the desks of their respective classes, and each inspects his own class. An examination as to cleanliness is thus effected, over the whole school in five minutes, and the practice of inspection, anticipated by the pupil, promotes habitual cleanliness. In a school of three hundred pupils, three thousand fingers and thumbs will be exhibited in a minute, and the effect on the eye is as singular, as the examination is beneficial. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 231

Categorization

• XREF: The idea that anticipated inspection produces self-discipline connects to the disciplinary surveillance logic Strauss discusses, and to the panopticon principle of internalized watching.
• DEFINE: Shows the pure mechanics of monitorial discipline where the mere anticipation of inspection replaces actual enforcement.