Monday, May 22, 2006

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

Now all repeat after me... makkos mardus!

"The teaching faculty that flogs one schoolboy in seven years is called "murderous." Master Elazar ben Azariah says that this extends to one good thrashing in seventy (!) years. Master Tarfon and Master Akiva say, "If we had been tenured, no one would ever have been caned, whether with birches or with rods." Master Simon ben Gamliel responds, "Such an attitude would increase misbehaviour in the lower forms." "


---Extract from the Mishna, Maseches Rugby.

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