THE SEAT OF LEARNING

THE SEAT OF LEARNING

 

I have been studying how you humans cope with disciplining naughty children. Your children seem to be utterly absorbed by their mobile phones while at the zoo. Are phones a “Nanny substitute”? Distraction, not Discipline! After all, they can’t ring us up, can they?

You have discarded the advice given in Proverbs 13:24 “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes” in favour of the more trendy “psychological” approach.

I remember my old grandpa would get very stroppy with us when we were growing up, and it did us no harm at all.

I perceive “sparing the rod” to be a barrier to learning, I think what . This has to be the most convoluted philosophy I have had to deal with on my journey towards humanity. Leave me alone, thanks!

Bring back the application of the rod to the “seat of learning”!

Gibber! Gibber!

Chugley

The once beastly little Chimp

 

 

 

 

 

4 thoughts on “THE SEAT OF LEARNING”

  1. I received the rod of learning at school, tho it was called a cane. I received the rod of learning at home as a child, tho it was called a wooden spoon. I survived both childhood, and adulthood unscarred. So it can’t be all bad. (tho’ at the time I wasn’t too sure. And I did have a mobile phone, made of two cans and some string. Reception was not much better than today.

  2. As a school teacher, I always thought it was a mistake to ban the use of corporal punishment in schools. Boys especially are “physical” in their perception and understanding of life, and I think in the hands of a responsible and careful teacher, a couple of stings on the backside with a cane will quickly do good in saving a child from treading the path of “foolishness”.

    1. Yes, it surprises me that humans could fall into such foolish traps, my mother would box my ears, saved me heaps of grief, taught me to eat my bananas properly! Gibber! Gibber! Chugley

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