Add the two together and you have cause for concern. Concern which, to their everlasting shame has been missing from the ‘good Christians’ who suffered the little children to be cowed with the stick. The early books of the Old Testament and Hebrews in the New have a lot of abuse to answer for.

If you took the time, for example, to read Irwin Hyman’s work ( try’Reading, Writing, and the Hickory Stick’ as a good overview) you will see how abusive schools tend to exhibit clusters of indicators, and then when you poke beneath the surface those ‘clusters’ are normally associated with specific individuals who turn the use of corporal punishment into self-gratification.

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