Question

Corporal punishment should be banned in all educational institutions.Give your views for or against the statement

Answer 1

I am completely against corporal punishment at school. No one not even a parent and a teacher should be allowed to beat children. It not only breaks the moral code of ethics but is completely wrong on behalf of a guardian. Everyone is aware of the incidents including deaths of students due to corporal punishment. Nobody can put a hand on someone because he wants to, such practices are inhuman and teachers participating in such practices must be imprisoned and stripped of all respect.

Answer 2

                                            Corporal Punishment

Ellen Key, a great Swedish writer and educationist, has very appropriately said, 'Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.’ The concept of corporal punishment has become obsolete. The scientific study done on the consequences of corporal punishment has confirmed its damaging effects on the victim’s body, mind and soul.

Corporal punishment has many disadvantages. It has been seen that children who were administered corporal punishment became stubborn and obdurate. Secondly, in many cases corporal punishment led to severe injuries or in certain cases death. Corporal punishment instills in the minds of children fear, which is diametrically opposite to the purpose of education. One of the aims of education is to make human mind free of all types of fear. So, corporal punishment and education cannot go hand in hand. It is a kind of child abuse. Most of the human rights organizations consider it a barbaric practice. Hence, corporal punishment has been banned legally. The Law prohibits corporal punishment.

Keeping in view the above mentioned views and arguments, corporal punishment should be banned at all educational institutes where it might have been practiced.