Corporal punishment

"Spare the rod and spoil the child."

"Qui parcit virgæ odit filium."

"He that spareth the rod, hateth his son; but he that loveth him, chasteneth him betimes."

"A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes."

"Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying."

"Judgements are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the backs of fools."

"Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it from him."

"Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with a rod, thou shalt deliver his soul from hell."

"A whip for a horse, a bridle for an ass, and a rod for a fool's back."

"Ὃ μὴ δαρεὶς ἄνθρωπος οὐ παιδεύεται."

"Adsit Regula, peccatis quæ pœnas irroget æquas Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello."

"Aut disce, aut discede: manet sors tertia cædi."

"He that will not use the rod on his child, his child shall be used as a rod on him."

"When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire, who were remarkably well behaved, owing to their mother’s strict discipline and severe correction, he exclaimed, in one of Shakespeare’s lines, a little varied,‘Rod, I will honour thee for this thy duty.’At a subsequent period, he observed to Dr. Rose, ‘There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.’"

"All the learnin’ my father ever paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and the alphabet at th’ other."

"Somebody ought to make a historical study of—the relation between theology and corporal punishment in childhood. I have a theory that, wherever little boys and girls are systematically flagellated, the victims grow up to think of God as ‘Wholly Other’—isn’t that the fashionable argot in your part of the world? Wherever, on the contrary, children are brought up without being subject to physical violence, God is immanent. A people’s theology reflects the state of children’s bottoms. ... Look at the Hebrews—enthusiastic child-beaters. And so were all good Christians in the Age of Faith. Hence Jehovah, hence Original Sin and the infinitely offended Father of Roman and Protestant orthodoxy. ... Major premise: God is Wholly Other. Minor premise: man is totally depraved. Conclusion: Do to your children's bottoms what was done to yours, what your Heavenly Father has been doing to the collective bottom of humanity ever since the Fall: whip, whip, whip!"