A Quote by George Orwell

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

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George Orwell
British - Novelist
June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950

I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers.

John F. Kennedy

In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.

John Rzeznik

I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.

Fred Rogers

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.

Essie Davis

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

P. J. O'Rourke

If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.

Jeph Jacques

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Hannah Arendt

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

Ryan Reynolds

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

Wilhelm Frick

As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.

Christopher Moore

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

Anton Chekhov

I think corporal punishment is the shortest, most impatient, flawed way of teaching or making a child understand something.

Ranvir Shorey

We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been obstructed. Now we have to suffer the punishment.... In the Balkan Wars, Serbia not only doubled its territory, but also its external enemies.