Review of the corporal punishment in schools

I've always been interested in this topic. When it comes to the issue, whether or not to give the corporal punishment for students, I would like to quote this saying: "Spare the rod, spoil the child." Across the ages and in all countries of the world, the sayings like this have been told so far, which implies that it would be safe to emphasize the effects of the corporal punishment for children with problems. I support this side and I also will not spare the rod for my lovely child if he or she did something wrong. That is not because I love him or her less, but because I love him or her so much.

In my case, I used to get a good beating many times from my parents to my teachers. My dad would warn me two times, overlooking my faults until he saw me do the same thing for the third time. When I repeated the bad thing over three times, he held the rod and never let it just go. I can remember the days that I was beaten and cried out. As a result of 'the education,' I could fix my bad habits. In schools, when I did something else which had nothing to do with the class, I was beaten by the teacher. I don't mean that I was happy with those memories. I feel sorry even now when I was reminded of those days. While I often complained about the punishments, I could not protest against them because there were some obvious rules agreed to me, and I knew I did wrong things. And it is true that those days have made me now, guiding me to choose the more right way.

Now that any kind of corporal punishment is suddenly banned in schools, with a lot of problems and side effects beginning to rise, there are many controversies and noisy discussions regarding school education. Teachers are worried about the fall of teachers' authority and students are sick of the teachers who don't even deserve to be called educators. Everything is abnormal. Schools, parents, teachers, students, and all of us are responsible for that. Actually, the corporal punishment is not a matter. What matters is communication. This issue is just a part of reflection on the absence or at least lack of the communication among us. If we are in the well-agreed state in terms of how to educate our children, there will be much less problems whether or not there is the corporal punishment because there might be some proper solutions about the problems! I strongly insist that the most urgent thing now is to unify the educational world to the maximum and make the teachers see the current situation in a new light. Education for teachers should be first. Once it is well done, I believe the rest would follow.