The question of whether people perceive something as “fair” or “unfair” raises an important distinction between observable facts and...
One way of estimating how many women experienced corporal punishment at school would be to take a very simple...
Over the years, discussions about school corporal punishment have revealed a wide variety of attitudes among those who experienced...
Does Pain Really Deter? For obvious ethical and practical reasons, it is difficult to conduct rigorous scientific studies on...
School corporal punishment has historically been justified on several grounds, but perhaps the most commonly cited purpose is deterrence....
The experience of corporal punishment varies considerably depending on the instrument used, the area of the body being struck,...
Having taken an interest in comparing different forms of school corporal punishment, I find many modern observations remarkably similar...
The Belt My experience with the belt has been limited to the bare buttocks, so I cannot compare its...
Discussions about traditional school punishments often focus on the severity of different implements, but much depends on their design,...
Over the years, I have found myself in a position where I can make some meaningful comparisons between the...
A girl who lived in the same street was very interested in a slippering I received from the P.E...
Looking back, one of the more interesting aspects of school corporal punishment was not necessarily the punishment itself, but...
At our school, corporal punishment was a visible and accepted part of everyday life. It existed within the wider...
Among boys at traditional schools where corporal punishment was commonplace, receiving the cane often carried a curious social status....
One incident from my school days that has always stayed with me involved a punishment I received from the...
Looking back on my school days, I can still remember one particular incident that seemed to surprise an adult...
As the end of term approached and the excitement of the upcoming holidays filled the air, my friends and...
Among my many memories of junior school, one incident stands out as particularly unusual. It involved a boy being...
One memory from my junior school days in the 1960s has stayed with me more vividly than most. In...
The late 1960s was a period of profound social change, and it must have been a particularly confusing time...
Corporal punishment was a normal part of school life during my school years, and like most boys of my...
Until recently, I had never really stopped to consider where the teachers at my primary school obtained the slippers...
For many boys who attended British schools during the mid-to-late 1970s, the physical education department was where they were...
In many British schools during the twentieth century, the slipper occupied a unique place among disciplinary measures. Unlike the...