I was caned a handful of times during my 13 years of schooling and everytime I visited my Headmaster I was fairly nervous. A visit to the Headmaster at my school meant that you were going to be caned and it was likely to be the maximum number of strokes. But did I learn anything from my punishments? and was a potential caning in the back of my mind when I misbehaved? Thinking back the answer is no, I just misbehaved. Some would say that it is an ineffective punishment and if you believe that punishment should make you think again about misbehaving then I would say that the cane was not an effective punishment.