Supporters of the old arrangement maintained that its importance rested less upon punishment itself than upon the authority which...
Repton later became familiar to a much wider readership through the recollections of the writer Roald Dahl, who described...
Another question concerns whether different types of schools developed different disciplinary traditions. Some former pupils believe that public and...
School recollections are not concerned solely with punishment. One former pupil of Harrow County School, reading an account of...
Former pupils continue to debate the relative risks associated with the different forms of corporal punishment once employed in...
Perhaps the most interesting feature of the prefect system is not that it existed, but the manner in which...
To the modern reader, the notion of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old pupil sitting in judgment upon a younger schoolboy...
Can the old methods of school discipline leave their mark upon adult life? Former pupils’ recollections raise difficult questions...
There can be few British adults who passed through school in the first half of this century without possessing...
There is nothing particularly remarkable in remembering an unpleasant school punishment. Childhood experiences of all kinds may remain extraordinarily...
The matter becomes more complicated when attention turns to the traditional boarding school. Life in such an establishment was...
The traditional school depended to a considerable extent upon trust. A headmaster or housemaster was expected to exercise judgement....