Lincoln Allison on the Benefits of the Cane

Lincoln Allison poses a reasonable question:

‘Spare the rod and spoil the child’ was a maxim in Greek, Latin, Anglo-Saxon and a hundred other languages. The abandonment of a principle which had served humanity well from pre-history until fairly recently should at least be subject to some rigorous, bottom-line, questioning. Why did we abandon it?

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