“Leadership at Scotch has meant many things. It has always meant enforcing rules. It meant asserting authority, including the prefects’ own authority (in cases where boys were caned solely for challenging a prefect).”

“For all their free use of corporal punishment, those nineteenth-century teachers were in a way more gentle, more affectionate towards the boys, than the teachers whom the twentieth century assaulted so barbarously.”

David Pennington: “Caning by students was the norm. (I avoided this by sheer cunning.)”

“Scotch became self-sufficient, and in the 1930s it caned boys for leaving the grounds during school hours, whereas at Eastern Hill boys lunched in the city and frequented its busy arcades.”