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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

At the moment, I'm afraid that the discipline system doesn't give teachers the support that they need. One thing that I've been struck by is that the number of violent assaults on teachers increased last year. We need to be clear that teachers have the power they need in order to impose discipline.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

The education business is a little murky because by 1900, it has been pretty well decided that a certain amount of education was required to make the system of repression work. You had to have people who showed up punctually. You had to have people who took their orders obediently and understand them fully.