What people sense but don’t understand is that the rewards of schools operate on different plateau,s especially private schools
You only get one crack at it in life and your formative years are very important in your overall life experience.
On the first plateau, we have basic common sense like don’t point rifles as people when loaded in the CCF!
Then we enter a higher plateau-poetry literature drama. These things bring out the sensitive nature and encourage finer emotions and feelings that are entirely lacking in brutal state school.
the inner self is challenged.
Then we go onto an even higher plateau eg morning chapel-religious questions, marches in the hills of Snowdon, bonfires, flags, drums etc. These things are calculated to bring out all sorts of weird experiences in a young individual as The Founders of The Hitler Youth well knew.
Is This Because of Lack of Discipline6
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First Time Caned5
I did something pretty bad, that I prefer not to say. My Mother was furious. As punishment, every night...
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Pupils in a Class of their Own for Bad Behaviour40
I never learned to skip or play hopscotch. I can read an electronic schematic but a knitting pattern leaves...
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F Bomb5
So there I was, with the girl standing there, as Mrs Strickland closed the door. She began to yell,...
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School Punishment Book52
In my area, and I stress my area, hand spanking was not regarded as a punishment to be used...
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Origin of Caning in Schools5
It is assumed that Eton used ONLY the birch until it was abolished. This is not so. The birch...
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The Slipper in UK Schools3
We hated it of course and I vividly recall the sinking feeling when I was half way though a...
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Reactions to the Slipper27
Looking at a few Friends Reuinited references to these semi-private punishments. This first one was from a girl who...
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Tawsing Stool1
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the existence of the tawsing stool. Did such an item...