Education: Six of the Best - TIME
Headmaster Copping asked. Smiling, Wildman suggested “Six of the best, in the place that seems to have been provided by nature for the purpose.” At that point, Headmaster Copping gave a...
English school caning, March 1958 - CORPUN ARCHIVE uksc5803
PETER DURYEA, 18-year-old son of Hollywood "villain" Dan Duryea, walked nervously into the headmaster's study at Oakham School, Rutland. "Bend over, boy," said the head, Mr. John Buchanan, selecting a cane. Peter bent, hands on shins. Whereupon Mr. Buchanan planted six of the best on the spot Peter's trousers were tightest.
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Tales from the study
be sent to the headmaster’s study for six-of-the-best with the cane. And, now my fantasy was to come true: or so I hoped. It was all rather unexpected. I was in no way a bad lad, a rebellious teen, or a troublemaker. In fact, I was such a goody-goody I was a prefect at the school and tipped to go on to university.
Six of the best - wipipedia.org
Six of the best is a phrase that refers to a (chiefly British) method of physical punishment. Method "Six of the best" was a classic punishment for boys. Six strokes or "cuts" are delivered with a cane onto the delinquent's buttocks. The punishment could be given either on the seat of the trousers or shorts, on the briefs, or on the bare bottom.
Education: The Cane & the Strap - TIME
A t least one quaint custom of British education has not changed since Tom Brown’s Schooldays: the tradition of “six of the best” for misbehaving pupils. Although the cane and the strap are ...
Education: Six of the Best - TIME
Wildman brandished his prized 30-inch Dragon Smoky Malacca, "a very pliant and punishing cane." "And how many strokes do you advise?" Headmaster Copping asked. Smiling, Wildman suggested "Six...
Discipline and Detention: Looking Back at School in the 1950s
2017年1月29日 · But by far the most common memory was of having been caned by the headmaster. This is known in England as “six of the best.” One man remembered a stool he had to hold onto while he bent over to be thrashed. Another, presumably a bit of a tear-away, proudly claimed to have had over 150 lashings over his time at the school.
Six of the Best
Six of the Best. REGISTER OF DISCIPLINE ADMINISTERED AT ST. AUGUSTINE'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL (as recalled by the boys) Whether you were unlucky enough to receive "Six of the Best" or a lesser punishment... Fill in a docket to retrieve the event from oblivion and be entered into the Discipline Register...
Six of the Best - The Pen Factor
Our headmaster, Mister Hoy, was a lumbering giant of a man with unruly greying hair. He wore a slightly rumpled, grey and white pinstripe suit, shiny black shoes and, balanced on his nose, half glasses over which he stared penetratingly at any boy who had the temerity to look at him.
Six-of-the-Best Old-school Headteachers | Entertainment
2023年7月9日 · Here’s what we consider at Fiveminutesspare.com six-of-the-best (pun fully intended) old-school headteachers from British literature, film and TV: Wackford Squeers (Nicholas Nickleby) The fictional character Wackford Squeers was introduced to the literary world by Charles Dickens in his third novel, Nicholas Nickleby (1839).
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