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Parents have been saying that the young generation have been having it easy compared to them for centuries I certainly don't equate discipline with physical punishment; there are ways to keep children in check without hitting them. Kids should be free to study and learn without the threat of...

A year before me. It seems like another world now, so different from my kids' experiences of school. It's not just the abolition of corporal punishment, it's just about everything from the meagre homework they get these days to the choice of lunches. I got an email the other day about the...

I actually liked George Eley. When I was slipping behind in maths, he gave me loads of encouragement and helped me with stuff I found tricky. I did so well that I got the second highest mark in the class at the end of the year and George gave me a massive bar of chocolate as a reward. I was...

'''Arry Allt was seriously deranged. There was a story that he'd locked a boy in a cupboard for the afternoon: I never knew whether it was true or not but it was believable as it was the sort of thing he would do. He was also a terrible teacher: there were some serious disciplinarians at the...

Ah, Spud Taylor, of not blessed memory, We used to call the block of wood the keyboard (and it did have a set of keys attached to it). I only got it once - and that was enough. Do you remember Teapot and his slipper, not nearly so painful but he did seem to take a particular delight in...