A more flexible model of punishment allowed for the possibility that he who is punished might learn. Thus Pharaoh underwent increasingly severe punishments until he achieved the desired behaviour which had been explicitly stipulated from the outset – for learning is greatly helped when pupils are given clear targets. The educational model employed is […]
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In the 1920s Edmunds taught writing to the Junior School with ‘a bunch of keys with which he chastized children’. In the 1930s Charles ‘Chassa’ Pawsey (1908, staff 1922-43) – fearsome in appearance and attitude, unsmiling and overbearing – used a ‘rubber hose to chastise for smallest infringement i.e. not knowing the answer to […]
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A long ruler whacked down hard on a desk, and a manner that brooked no weakness, set the tone from the start. With a solid frame established, some mellowing would be possible, and learning could proceed. The military model of learning is said to be that ‘when you fear the instructor more than the task, […]
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“Punishment for failing to learn a lesson has several intensities and purposes. It can be done as an example. Adam and Eve received no chance to learn from their mistake. The learning opportunity was for others. It is not by chance that such strong, pre-emptive discipline occurs near the start of the Bible, and many […]
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Thirdly, I know there’s at least one Scotchie on the list – so I thought he might be interested in seeing this. A couple of definitions – The Hill refers to the area of the school traditionally occupied by boarders. Satura is a student newspaper/magazine. And now for the quotes: “Various models were available […]
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I saw boys from a lot of schools – but of those in my daily experience, only those of Scotch seemed to have the same strength of feeling, the same types of attitudes I saw at my old school. I’m also a bit of a snob – I was very proud of going to […]
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Scotch College, Melbourne. I should say straight away that this particular school has had a number of histories written about it. These quotes come from the most recent one published in 2001. “A Deepening Roar: Scotch College, Melbourne, 1851-2001” by James Mitchell. I have several reasons for going with Scotch next. Firstly because it’s a […]
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Boy Prefects: “They were exempt from corporal punishment. They entered the Study Hall last (after ‘interviewing offenders in line’). They could communicate ‘sparingly in study, and leave free periods and Chapel without the permission of the master in charge, and go to the head of lines for leaves and confessions. The charter was ‘natural’, no […]
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The less stoic might bury their stinging fingers under their arms and bend silently over them. Those who clenched their fists, or pulled away, or showed obvious fear, could expect to be laughed at. There were few protests at the injustice done to others, although an inaccurate ‘cut’ which raised a welt on a wrist […]
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All punishment was public. Even if a boy was strapped behind closed doors, in an institution with private corners he was forced to parade his bravado or his tears to the public scrutiny of his peers. In the classroom he was on stage. He had to stand, hand outstretched and watched by half sympathetic, half […]