Corporal Punishment Quotes

• 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.

  Ellen Key

  Pain, Punishment, Giving

  Ellen Key (1909). “The Century of the Child”

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

  George Orwell

  Education, Punishment, Doubt

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• Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim forever and becomes an unforgiving part of his or hier personality--a massive frustration resulting in a hostility which will seek expression in later life in violent acts towards others. The sooner we understand that love and gentleness are the only kinds of called-far behavior towards children, the better. The child, especially, learns to become the kind of human being that he or she has experienced. This should be fully understood by all caregivers.

  Ashley Montagu

  Children, Integrity, Frustration

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Communication, Compassion

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• In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

  Alice Miller

  Suicide, Bullying, Children

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Enemies List”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Spare the rod and spoil the child.

  Samuel Butler

  Children, Punishment, Moments

  'Hudibras' pt. 2 (1664), canto 1, l. 843

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• 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

  Father, Punishment, Discipline

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• 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

  Teacher, Strong, Children

  News Conference 56, May 22, 1963.

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• Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

  Jules Renard

  Success, Congratulations, Failure

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.123, Tin House Books

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• 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

  Math, Punishment, Coarse

  "A Journey to Sakhalin". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• 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.

  John Shelton Reed

  Country, School, Scotch

  John Shelton Reed (1993). “My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture”, p.15, University of Missouri Press

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• If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.

  Jeph Jacques

  Self Esteem, Punishment, Lows

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• The king governs without decapitation or (other) corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances (of each case). Even in cases of repeated attempts at wicked rebellion, they only have their right hands cut off.

  Faxian

  Country, Kings, Cutting

  "A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms".

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• Even if the civil magistrate is so gifted as to prophesy in the church, yet in the sphere of his civil duties he is forbidden to call down fire from heaven, that is, to procure or inflict any corporal punishment upon offenders in religious doctrine or practice, remembering Christ's admonition that He came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.

  Roger Williams

  Religious, Men, Fire

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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