essay on corporal punishment should be banned in all educational institutions
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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