There are certain implements which, by their very nature, seem wholly unsuited to the administration of corporal punishment. The...
In the hard-edged classrooms and draughty gymnasiums of post-war Scotland, discipline was regarded not merely as part of education,...
There are certain sounds that never truly leave a generation. The squeak of plimsolls across polished wooden floors. The...
In those days, school discipline carried with it a sense of theatre as much as punishment. Every master seemed...
In retrospect, one of the more curious episodes connected with the school’s turbulent final years was the affair involving...
In the curious underworld of post-war British eccentricity, few figures were more puzzling — or more unsettling — than...
In later years, many former pupils would compare notes about school discipline with the peculiar fascination reserved for vanished...
The next summons to the Headmaster’s study came several weeks later, though the sense of inevitability surrounding it made...
There was always a curious science to the school cane — a grim arithmetic known intimately by generations of...
In the decades when school discipline was regarded as an essential pillar of education, the administration of corporal punishment...
I have often found myself wondering how schoolmasters first learned the art of using the cane. Was it something...
I think the majority of boys at my school were spanked, slippered, or caned at least once. Some experienced...