Not every school punishment remained vivid in later life. Some respondents remembered particular incidents in extraordinary detail while admitting...
The opposite category is equally revealing. Some punishments were remembered not primarily because they were severe but because the...
Some of the most useful survey answers come from respondents who openly state that they deserved punishment. Such evidence...
The experience of one grammar-school respondent is particularly useful because his recollections cover several consecutive years. Rather than describing...
School punishment generally interrupted ordinary life only briefly. The pupil was expected to return to lessons and continue the...
Physical Discipline in British Schools Chapter Seventy-Six The Punishment Book as an Official Record
The punishment book deserves further attention because it represents the point at which personal discipline became documentary evidence. A...
The survey shows that discipline in many schools followed a recognisable hierarchy. Not every offence went directly to the...
Earlier chapters have examined pupils who repeatedly appeared in trouble. The accumulated evidence now permits a closer examination of...
The evidence examined so far reveals both the strengths and weaknesses claimed for corporal punishment by those who experienced...
Former pupils sometimes remember their final corporal punishment with particular clarity. They may not have known at the time...
Corporal punishment was most dramatic when it was exceptional. Where it occurred frequently, its meaning could change. The Exceptional...
Fear appears frequently in recollections of school discipline. So does respect. The two were not necessarily the same. The...