INTERNATIONAL CHILD AND YOUTH CARE NETWORK

3 MARCH 2000
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HISTORICAL

from Principles of Child Care in Institutions: A Handbook for Staff Study and Discussion

"About the only time a cottage mother will ever have an excuse for using corporal punishment might be in the case of a boy who, previous to coming to the home, has been beaten so much and so often that he seems unable to understand any other language. Such a boy may perhaps fail to understand that the absence of corporal punishment does not mean license. By beating him once in thorough fashion she may be able to make him understand in an emphatic way that she can speak a language which he does understand. She will follow this up with an explanation of the usual method of discipline in the cottage, and will use her ingenuity in using other methods with this boy."  (pp. 185-186)

... and on that subject, from the creator 
of the famous girls' school St Trinians and 
fictional schoolboy Nigel Molesworth, ...

"Your psychoanalyst may say one thing,
Tomkins, but I say another — and my 
treatment is free!"

— RONALD SEARLE