Children Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

— P. J. O'Rourke

When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion,…

— Barbara Coloroso

I know that parents understand the need for greater discipline in school. They want to know that their children are in a safe and…

— Gavin Williamson

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I…

— John Taylor Gatto

What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get their ownback;…

— Bruno Bettelheim

I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

— Danny Silk

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy,…

— B. F. Skinner

Suspension and expulsion are tied to a host of short- and long-term consequences. For some students, zero-tolerance policies in schools lead directly to involvement…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which…

— George Bernard Shaw

I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to…

— Seymour Papert