If there was one episode that seemed to capture the changing mood of the mid-1960s, it was not the...
By the beginning of the 1960s something curious was happening in English schools. The regulations remained much the same,...
There was a time when one could mention the name of almost any English grammar school and, before long,...
By the early 1970s, corporal punishment remained common in many British schools, but its authority was no longer unquestioned....
The headmaster’s study occupied a special place in school mythology. Its furnishings were ordinarily respectable and dull: a broad...
The cane was only one article in a surprisingly varied armoury of school discipline. In junior schools and gymnasiums,...
In Scotland, the chief instrument was not usually the cane but the tawse, widely known among pupils as the...
There are certain phrases which belong unmistakably to the British schoolroom of an earlier age: Report to the Headmaster,...
For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, corporal punishment was an accepted method of maintaining discipline in schools...
One argument often made by supporters of corporal punishment is that no single discipline method works for every child....
Corporal punishment in schools has been abolished in many places because of growing concerns about children’s safety, fairness, and...
The abolition of corporal punishment in schools was driven by a combination of ethical, practical, and legal concerns. Unlike...