They were the great characters of my prep school, the kindly, humble and long-serving staff who we boys loved. Amid the fearsome headmaster – cane and crimson slippers at the ready at tea-time ...

LIVERPOOL, England — Philip Williamson is on a mission to put the sting back into British classroom discipline. With the Bible as his guide and a now idle paddle as his instrument, the soft-spoken ...

Charles Spencer’s A Very Private School begins with a dedication, “For Buzz”, and a quote from Hilary Mantel: “I am writing in order to take charge of my childhood.” It is not until the end of this ...

The measure of William Thomas’ success as Charlestown High School headmaster is what you can’t see or hear in the hallways. Students aren’t there. They are in classrooms — working, learning, studying.

A 15-year-old boy’s right hand was fractured after he was allegedly subjected to corporal punishment by the headmaster of Pappapatti Government Higher Secondary School near Musiri in Tiruchi district.

When he had lectured at the school before, every child had seemed a model of behavior. That behavior, he concluded, was the result of a chastening caning now & then. So Eric Wildman, who manufactures ...

At least one quaint custom of British education has not changed since Tom Brown’s Schooldays: the tradition of “six of the best” for misbehaving pupils. Although the cane and the strap are still ...