Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.
I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!