Does the cane stimulate learning?
Here’s a thoughtful piece questioning whether learning in schools could ever be stimulated by the use of corporal punishment. It needs no further introduction except that it is from Canada in 1964.
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published in the Globe and Mail (Ontario, Canada), 1 June 1964
Picture credit: Sting Pictures
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Thank you Sting Pictures. To start with notice the middle fingers of each hand pressed firmly on to the floor, and the straight legs.
ReplyDeleteI hope someone else will comment on this scene from the old days.
In fact, looking more closely, l think we have seen this one before from a different angle. But still a wonderful picture.
DeleteA picture of obedient submission taking the consequences.
DeleteIn answer to the question, the fear of caning might stimulate learning in some boys. Others who do not fear caning relish showing off their high pain threshold.
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