Eric Arthur Wildman was born 20th May, 1921. After serving in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War he set up the Corpun Educational Supply Company which specialised in selling a variety of corporal punishment instruments, including canes, straps and tawses, to schools around the country.
Eric Wildman 1950s Crusader for Corporal Punishment1
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Delay before punishment2
Generally, we try to use the cane as soon as is practical after an offence is detected (which is...
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School Punishment Book132
The number of strokes given was primarily dependent on the age of the student, and then secondarily dependent on...
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Views on Suspect Teachers from the Good Old Days4
Personally, I don’t think that the answer is obvious. After all, the Western world is happy for male doctors...
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Sent for the Cane 12
The headmaster, however, did not cane him immediately, but made him come back at lunchtime, and then did not...
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1960s Remniscence1
At the mixed grammar school I attended in the 1960s both boys and girls were subject to the cane....
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Girls slippered in front of boys5
On the other hand, girls were punished only rarely. I once overheard a boy ask if girls got the...
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Was the Pain of Corporal Punishment a Deterant3
Of course, you are correct about the “rite of passage”. In fact this is just one of many factors...
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Corporal Punishment and The Caning Experience72
I shall spare you the interview with the Head Prefect in his study. Somehow I find my way from...