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"I bent over a chair and was given three of the best with my trousers on. I did not think he lightened his strokes. ... I have never understood why Western educ
by sershe 4y ago
"I bent over a chair and was given three of the best with my trousers on. I did not think he lightened his strokes. ... I have never understood why Western educationists are so much against corporal punishment. It did my fellow students and me no harm" Lee Kuan Yew.
I'm curious, is there actually any evidence against institutional corporal punishment (institutional, not random abuse by parents). Or, was there any improvement in mental health or other indicators in the countries phasing it out? Going by overall numbers, mental health in the West appears to get worse and worse, the more kids (and adults) get coddled.
- api 4y ago> is there actually any evidence against institutional corporal punishment > mental health in the West appears to get worse and worse, the more kids (and adults) get coddled. It would be hard to support either assertion unless the effect were both large and universal across cultures. https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
- sershe 4y agoMy point is, if you end a practice harmful to mental health (and based on personal anecdotes from people really shocked by vestiges of it, to the point of not taking a job, people must think it's exceptionally harmful), you'd expect mental health to improve. If mental health instead declines - sure, it could be for other reasons, and you can even try to claim it would have declined more if you didn't end the practice, but you should have pretty good evidence to back that. As such, it's a weak but non-zero piece of evidence against the practice actually being harmful for mental health.