“In the 1950s ‘The rules were rigid, the discipline harsh. I was present when a 15-year-old boy… was caned...
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“Leadership at Scotch has meant many things. It has always meant enforcing rules. It meant asserting authority, including the...
Given our inexperience (and possibly blood lust), I think that the Prefects’ meetings were conducted in a fair and...
Prefects’ Meetings lasted until around 1970. Throughout that time they penalised smoking, swearing, leaving school in school hours, and...
“Prefects’ privileges were their room, their badge and their exemption from detentions and punishments. They also had the privilege...
As early as the 1870s, corporal punishment had its critics. The Government wanted to limit its use in the...
Unabashed by post-Freudian anxieties about physical contact, the old propensity to hit boys was part of a broader enthusiasm...
It was an era that accepted a level of physical violence between teacher and pupil. A good deal of...
‘They say corporal punishment scars a boy – which is a lot of cock! We treated it as a...
He put ‘the boys through conjugating verbs and declining nouns and those who failed too ignominiously received a few...