Question

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Answer 1

This proverb ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’ means that a child should be punished severely for his offences, otherwise he will be spoilt. This proverb seems to be the product of those Spartan days, when people knew only one language, which was harsh discipline, often severe brutal punishment.

Perhaps a wild beast can be controlled by a rod, but not a child, although it has been proved by experiments that even wild beasts understand love and kindness. The story of Androcless and the lion is known to all of us, when a hungry lion does not attack Androcless remembering his kindness.