The following is from a 1990 history of Geelong Grammar School –

Mr John Bracebridge Wilson, Headmaster, 1863 Prospectus: “In conducting the discipline of the school, the Headmaster has ever kept before him the following principles: on the part of the masters strict justice, united to kindliness and forbearance; on the part of the boys, truth and obedience. Untruthfulness in word or act, and willful disobedience, are the only offences for which corporal punishment is inflicted, and it is rarely found necessary to resort to it.”