Since times immemorial, societies flourished or fell pari passu with rise or fall in quality of their education. For ages, stick and carrot was the norm for disciplining non-adaptive students. But times have changed. Now Pak educational institutions abide by dictates of BF Skinner’s positive enforcement theory. Corporal punishment is a taboo. Infinity is the upper limit to integral of students’ disobedience.
To restore sheen of our educational system, corporal punishment in modest quantity should be allowed. Of course there must be a supervisory system (video surveillance) to ensure that the punishment is surgical and rare.
IMTIAZ KHAN YAHYA
RAWALPINDI
