‘Get rid of teachers who cane’

 

Teachers who insist on using corporal punishment should be replaced by those who do not, a prominent anti-caning campaigner in Ireland said.

Physician Dr Fergus Cahill was a leader in the fight to get corporal punishment banned.

Below: In 1976, a newspaper reported he visited a junior school and stole the headmaster’s cane …

Below that: A 1979 report that Dr Cahill sent the Irish Minister of Education a book called The Art of Caning saying it demonstrated ‘caning is an exercise in sexuality.’

As published in the Sunday Independent (Dublin, Ireland), 14 March 1976

As published in the Sunday Independent (Dublin, Ireland), 25 February 1979

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