Perhaps one of the strangest aspects of the school punishment system was the complicated collection of unwritten rules created...
Privacy was also a rather relative concept. One boy remembered receiving the slipper from a PE master after getting...
Physical education produced its own particular disciplinary customs. At one school there was a very straightforward rule: if a...
Not every girl regarded punishment as amusing. Some former pupils remember girls being noticeably more sympathetic than boys when...
Looking back, the answer appears to be: occasionally perhaps, but certainly not as a general rule. Teenage attraction has...
What perhaps stands out most strongly today is how ordinary the whole business once seemed. Pupils knew which teachers...
This is the central question, and the recollections provide no simple answer. There are certainly examples in which punishment...
Perhaps the greatest weakness of corporal punishment was revealed by the children who received it most often. If physical...
The central justification for corporal punishment was that unpleasant consequences would teach children not to misbehave. At its simplest...
It would be too simple to portray every former pupil as permanently damaged by corporal punishment. The recollections do...
The Cane, the Slipper and the Schoolroom What Did Corporal Punishment Actually Achieve? Part One — When Physical Punishment...
Perhaps the most striking feature of these memories is not the punishments themselves but how ordinary they once seemed....