‘Discipline is a good thing’

“If I don’t get obedience when I gave an order, then it means the cane.” The following is a reader’s letter sent into the Irish Times newspaper in 1955 by mother Norah James…

No man or woman can change human nature, and so it is utterly ridiculous to say that children will be better citizens and more docile without corporal punishment.

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