They were the great characters of my prep school, the kindly, humble and long-serving staff who we boys loved. Amid the fearsome headmaster – cane and crimson slippers at the ready at tea-time ...

LIVERPOOL, England — Philip Williamson is on a mission to put the sting back into British classroom discipline. With the Bible as his guide and a now idle paddle as his instrument, the soft-spoken ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Only headmasters or teachers with authority may cane students, and the punishment cannot be imposed on female students, says Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek. She said implementing the ...

When he had lectured at the school before, every child had seemed a model of behavior. That behavior, he concluded, was the result of a chastening caning now & then. So Eric Wildman, who manufactures ...

At least one quaint custom of British education has not changed since Tom Brown’s Schooldays: the tradition of “six of the best” for misbehaving pupils. Although the cane and the strap are still ...