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Dude in India, it was fairly common for teachers to whoop asses. There were some teachers (the good ones) whose punishment included doing squats or running around the field but there were some monsters who would horribly hit students, me in the 9th grade was beaten so bad that it started from the first row of bench and ended at the end of the last bench, the fucking monster did not even stop after me being cornered.

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As a fellow Indian growing up in 90s, I feel you. I had my fair share of beatings from teachers in school.

There were cases where parents who found it challenging to control their kids, would encourage teachers to use physical force on them. Parents deemed it was school's responsibility to instill discipline in their children.

As far as I can recall, use of violence to control kids was pretty common back in the day, both at home and at school. I don't see that happening nowadays, though.

Thankfully, My parents who were both teachers specifically told my teachers not to hurt me physically and my teachers actually listensed to them.

Famously, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein beat a pupil unconscious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidbauer_incident

Ludwig Hittgenstein, they used to call him. (But only in their private language.)

no wonder what he wrote is shite. i couldn't progress beyond a few pages, the man is so full of himself.

And I say this as someone who can comfortably read Kant in (the original no less).

He almost hit Popper with a fire poker! Allegedly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein%27s_Poker

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