Education: Rod & Child

The sedate Letters-to-the-Editor columns of the New York Times are usually stiff with sesquipedalian discussions of such matters as the U.S. debt and the minority problem in Macedonia. It is a forum that attracts Supreme Court justices, ambassadors and college presidents. But occasionally, as last week, a plain, ordinary person sounds off on a really universal theme.

"If more parents were in the habit of taking their offspring over their knee and applying a generous dose of strap oil, we'd all be better," wrote Mrs. T. Scholz. "My three teen-age girls have felt the beneficial sting since way back. . . ."...

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