Educational Reforms

  Instilling Discipline In Children Whithout Caning In my previous post I talked about the possibility of bringing back corporal punishment in schools to discipline children. Bring Back Caning In Schools ? Corporal punishment may have worked well 40-60 years ago but we are now in the mass information age and what worked then cannot necessarily work now. On 20th November 1989 in New York City The Convention On The Rights Of The Child was adopted by the UN General Assembly.Its aim was to ensure children were protected from hard and exploitation especially in times of war. Rights Of The Child Children need to be disciplined yes , of that there is no question.The aim of disciplining children is to educate them on why they are being punished. The Why is very important here. Children need to understand why they are being punished . Yes the cane is a solid deterrent but it can have grave side effects if overly used.Much like the over use of antibiotics caused bacteria to become resistan...

Should We Bring Back Corporal Punishment In Schools? Currently Corporal Punishment Has Banned Almost Universally In all Schools.The Gen Zee Who Brought About Demand For Changes in Kenya , Bangladesh Were Brought Up Whithout Corporal Punishment And So Are The Generations Following Them.They are in fact brought up thinking they have the same rights as their adult teachers Gen Zee People like myself born in the 1970`s and Early 80`s  experienced some form or the other of corporal punishment.Those born in the the 50`s and 60`s experienced it even more.Corporal punishment instilled a sense of discipline , through fear which was good.The bolder ones of course just didn`t care and went ahead with their Huckleberry Finn activities knowing very well the odd 3 or 4 canings would not harm them at all.But the Huckleberry Finns were fewer and most children remained obedient. Huckleberry Finn Does this mean the teachers of the 50`s , 60`s 70`s up to 90`s were sadistic brutes who enjo...