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...
These recollections raise a question which educationalists continue to debate: should academic failure ever be treated as a disciplinary...
Memories of an Earlier School Age Once regarded as an ordinary instrument of school discipline, corporal punishment remains among...
When Punishment Was Considered Part of Growing Up Perhaps the most striking feature of these recollections is not simply...
No Single Rule Governed British Discipline It is tempting, looking backwards, to speak of “the old school system” as...
Discipline Was Far From Equal One particularly interesting feature of these recollections concerns the different treatment of boys and...
Literature Reflects the Classroom The place occupied by corporal punishment in British life can also be seen in children’s...
Discipline as Part of the Period Landscape Robert Westall’s The Machine Gunners is particularly revealing because school punishment is...
Authority in School Stories Other novels carried the traditional disciplinary world still further. In Tom Holland’s The Headmaster’s Son,...
Memory, Evidence and Changing Attitudes What are we to make of these recollections today? The first requirement is caution....
The controversy becomes more complicated when considered alongside the history of corporal punishment in American schools. In some parts...