Discipline should start in the cradle

SIR – John Phillpott is absolutely right, that Noddy-book theories on human behaviour have proved to be carefully cultivated clap when tried in practice! We need to go back to the drawing board.

I would submit that man is basically an animal, who only becomes civilised when subject to discipline, which should start in the cradle. Discipline means the control of each for the benefit of all.

Up until 1986 EU-ordered changes in common sense policies, in Worcestershire schools we had the slap in our first schools, slipper in our middle schools and the cane in our high schools – part of a well thought out code of discipline.

TOM WAREING,
Redditch.

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