Angus Deaton

I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.

British Economist

Keith Ellison

While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what's going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it's going to end, how can any human know what God wants?

American Politician

John Shelton Reed

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

Sociologist

Ranvir Shorey

I had two elder brothers and they would thrash me if I do something wrong, then dad would thrash me. I think corporal punishment as disciplining the child is what I am questioning... I feel there are less flawed methods.

Indian Actor

Christina Hoff Sommers

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

American Author

Shakti Mohan

Being in the business of the entertainment, fitness plays a more imperative role because there is a corporal representation to constantly cater to.

Indian Dancer

William E. Simon

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

American Public Servant

John Rzeznik

In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.

American Musician

George Orwell

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

British Author

Essie Davis

Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.

Australian Actress

Corporal is a specific rank, so use it only when talking about military positions.

Military Rank

Corporal is used in hierarchical systems, often indicating authority or responsibility.

Hierarchy Context

It's incorrect to call new recruits corporals; the title is earned with experience.

Not Basic Training

The word corporal is not just any cloth, it's a specific item used in church rituals.

Religious Item

Because it's used in religious settings, treat the term corporal with reverence in related contexts.

Sacred Respect

Use corporal when you want to emphasize the relation to the physical aspect of a person.

Physical Relation

Corporal is about the body; it doesn't refer to mental or psychological aspects.

Not Psychological

Corporal is not used for animals or objects; it's solely related to the human body.

Human Body Only

 actually very kind but probably wouldn't have wanted to spoil me too much and a school where we had to run through showers cold showers every morning at 6:00 a.m. and there was a lot of corporal punishment and all the boys were allowed to beat younger boys in fact encouraged to do so and in between

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 where corporal punishment in the classroom is legal, where it is legal for a teacher to beat a child with a wooden board, hard, and raising large bruises and blisters and even breaking the skin. And hundreds of thousands of children, incidentally, are subjected to this every year.

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 states in our country where corporal punishment in the classroom is legal where it is legal for a teacher to beat a child with a wooden board heart under raising large bruises and blisters and even breaking the skin and a hundreds of thousands of children instantly are