This is not the way to get someone to love Law and want to respect it. More than that, it's not the way to get someone to learn excessive anxiety actually prevents long term memory formation. Marrally and pragmatically, it's the wrong way to do things.
Actually, corporal punishment is still practiced in US schools, and worse, at some schools, the typical form is designed specifically to cause as much public humiliation as possible. Shows a lot about what our country's values are, doesn't it?
Ah, but tradition should never be blindly followed *says the Reform Jew*
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Date: 2010-07-13 05:02 pm (UTC)Actually, corporal punishment is still practiced in US schools, and worse, at some schools, the typical form is designed specifically to cause as much public humiliation as possible. Shows a lot about what our country's values are, doesn't it?
Ah, but tradition should never be blindly followed *says the Reform Jew*