On a small handful of occasions, I handed out canings of comparable severity to the worst I’d experienced at school, but most of the time they were fairly moderate, and as I became senior enough to influence and then set policy, I worked with others to reduce and then eliminate the most severe forms of corporal punishment and as that happened, less severe forms became my practice and general practice – no longer caning with maximum force, for example, but instead applying firm strokes that were much less likely to cause even temporary damage.
If I wanted to break it down into periods of time, and speaking roughly.