A teacher recently contacted me and explained that the school she worked in was very entrenched in the idea that discipline = punishment. The students buy into this idea in that they seem to depend on punitive reactions from their teachers and parents. She wanted to know how to help the children move from being punishment-minded to being self-disciplined.
Here is how I replied:
Punishment, which is very often confused with discipline, operates on the theory that young people must be hurt to learn—that they must be harmed to instruct.
Can you recall the last time you felt bad and did something good? People do not think positively with negative feelings.
Punishments kill the very thing we are attempting to … >>>
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