School dinner ladies occupied a peculiar position in the childhood world. They were not teachers, yet during the lunch...
We had been standing facing the wall for perhaps ten seconds when my friend whispered: “Come on!” She disappeared...
For anyone who attended school in Britain between the late 1940s and the 1960s, corporal punishment was hardly unusual....
From the dunce’s corner and the “Welsh Not” to the cane, strict classroom rules and attempts to change left-handed...
Corporal punishment in schools possesses a history extending back for centuries. One early English poem, The Birched School-Boy, printed...
Few educational practices now appear more unnecessary than the attempt to force naturally left-handed children to use their right...
The “Welsh Not” belongs to one of the darker chapters in British educational history. During the nineteenth century, some...
Memories of old-fashioned schooling produce sharply divided opinions. One person remembers firm discipline with gratitude. Another remembers the same...
Recollections of School Discipline and Academic Standards in the 1960s The methods by which schoolchildren are encouraged to apply...
Religious schools appear to have produced some particularly vivid recollections. A former pupil of a Catholic primary school in...
Perhaps the greatest difficulty with automatic punishment for poor marks was that examination results did not always tell the...
Every preparatory school seems to possess at least one teacher whose habits become part of school folklore. One establishment...