--- On Mon, 12/8/08, Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Threat of Punishment Works, Study Suggests > http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081204/sc_livescience/threatofpunishmentworksstudysuggests >
If one reads this report carefully and tries to understand what it says, it becomes obvious that neither the silly title of this thread nor the frivolous generalizations in the form of rhetorical questions below, are warranted by any stretch of reason or imagination. If the authors had made these types of harebrained ideological extrapolations from their rather nuanced results, their paper would not have been accepted for publication in Science, or any other peer-reviewed journal, for that matter. The attempt to justify and condone the crimes of the inquisition is especially grotesque in this regard. But so is the absurd point about sparing the rod. Corporal punishment is not only found to be ineffective in children, but it has been shown to have deleterious effects on subsequent behavior. This form of disciplining has been banned in public and Catholic schools in 102 countries across the world. Here is an American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement on banning of corporal punishment in school children: http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics%3b106/2/343 Cheers, Santosh Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is this not commonly called "Spare the rod and spoil the child"? In the >17th > century was this not called The Inquisition? >
