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Corporal punishment is a reversion to primitive times

Nov 16, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
In reference to Mr. Malcolm Alves’ letter in which he supports the continued use of corporal punishment in schools, I would first like to say that my argument against corporal punishment is not just borrowing from another society, but following an enlightened approach in response to a system by which we exploited a purely physical remedy to problems in our classrooms than can be more effectively solved by psychological means.
Is he suggesting that, now that we have experienced the advantages of applying psychology to the way we live our lives, we should continue to influence children’s behaviour through physical pressures rather than using methods that would impact mentally and more permanently?
Are we not regressing to the ways of our primitive ancestors when we accept that we can do no better than what the lower animals use to get what they want?
By extension, if we should refrain from “borrowing from another society”, then we should go back to travelling only on foot or by canoe, we should put aside our telephones, radios and all the other devices that we now enjoy, and revert to primitive methods of communication, learning and even how we acquire the basic necessities in our lives.
Roy Paul

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