Can the old methods of school discipline leave their mark upon adult life? Former pupils’ recollections raise difficult questions...
There can be few British adults who passed through school in the first half of this century without possessing...
There is nothing particularly remarkable in remembering an unpleasant school punishment. Childhood experiences of all kinds may remain extraordinarily...
The matter becomes more complicated when attention turns to the traditional boarding school. Life in such an establishment was...
The traditional school depended to a considerable extent upon trust. A headmaster or housemaster was expected to exercise judgement....
More difficult still is the suggestion that repeated punishment during adolescence might influence later emotional or intimate life. Here...
No discussion of traditional British discipline proceeds very far before the public schools enter it. The image is familiar:...
What perhaps separates yesterday’s school most sharply from that of tomorrow is not the cane itself but the attitude...
It would be convenient to conclude either that corporal punishment caused lasting harm or that it caused none. The...
Educational history has generally been written in terms of Acts of Parliament, examinations, buildings, famous headmasters and changing methods...
Over the past few months, an informal research project has been under way examining recollections of school corporal punishment...
At the present stage of the investigation: Schools examined: 695Schools where corporal punishment was reported: 508Schools where no such...