Originally posted by The man who was death:
No wrong mah the teacher is a stranger with no right to punish the child. Using corporal punishment now may be no use. Students are more outspoken and straightforward, if u try to punish them they will feel indignant and more hate and maybe commit more hate crimes. In the past, students more submissive mah, tell me u really want to students to be submissive, to be told what to do? u wanna let them be suppressed? Like that no wonder no one dares to speak up in singapore lah
The students of yore probably appeared more submissive because they knew that they would be beaten if they stepped out of line.
I do not really support corporal punishment though.
Edit: The army system might work though. Not strictly corporal punishment, but works pretty well. Imagine the scrawny, pimply 14 year old mob boss having to choose between leopard crawling 100m and shutting up. Or DB. I think he would shut up. I bet he would rather do his quadratic equations too.