“He had high standards and tried to insist on the principle, expressed in his 1863 prospectus, that boys were to be encouraged to take pleasure in their work by masters who also enjoyed what they were doing. Alas, what was natural to a gentle but commanding person like Wilson, a transparently sincere man who loved boys and even preferred the naughty ones, was beyond the reach of the common herd of colonial schoolmasters. They could not measure up and must have found it impossible to maintain order in a school at which the sanctions of corporal punishment, detentions and impositions were frowned upon and where their example, not just their rhetoric, was regarded as essential.”
School Corporal Punishment History79
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The High Price of Stealing45
Mr. Johnston gave his son a long talking to and decided to postpone the boy’s strapping until the following...
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Enjoyable Canings12
When I have gum on my soles and a few other close violations and I’m up against a defiant...
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Corporal Punishment References78
Holmwood Secondary Slough Julie Carter I remember Mr Wharton rural studies, got the cane many times, Honley High Kirklees...
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School Corporal Punishment The Pros and cons of11
Yes the physical side subsides very quickly, but I didn’t gain an interest in this subject or site by...
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Cane Marks21
I often see an obvious pair of ex-junkies collecting their 2 small kids from school. Both are well-dressed &...
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Corporal Punishment in the Sixties17
Reintroduction in England isn’t going to happen any time soon, and almost certainly will never happen. If however, it...
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Thoughts of an Abusive but Aparant Wartime Headmaster29
The other 12 of the best was administered to a friend of mine when he was about 13 after...
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Why Corporal Punishment is Wrong2
When we (UK ) abolished corporal punishment we literally started from the bottom upwards, and then stopped, no pun...