Teachers should be allowed to discipline students, eg use a ruler for a cane.

All right. There's so many ways to tackle this. K, I'll start with your first chunk, since that seems to be the one you put the most detail in. When writing about the change in ethical and social development throughout the generations following WW2, you seem to change your assessments and conclusions about one generation as you transition to the next. Particularly, in the first two generations, you described the Boomers in one way and then said something that contradicted your first analysis completely: "They were taught to be independent and work for a living, usually raised on tough love and strict education methods......Back in those days, educational corporal punishment was viewed as a character development and made a 'man out of you.' " (Paragraph 5) " ... during the '60-70s, parents n teachers a like were to busy w/ sex, drugs and rock n roll. They were simply not around enough/ were too immature n rebellious to look after the youth." (Paragraph 6) Kids born in the 50s and 60s would be at the age of adulthood and having the option of going into an educational career in about twenty years. If I'm not mistaken, which I am not, they would be adults during the 70s and early 80s, the same time in which you said parents and teachers were to busy abusing drugs and being just down right unethical, immoral citizens. According to the first part of your little timeline, you said that children were taught to be independent and diligent in society through the use of corporal punishment. Then, in your next generation analysis, you talked about the same group in their adulthood behaving completely opposite from how they were raised. You did this again with the next generation, saying that they were rebellious due to their lack of parenting and educational discipline and then saying, "By the 80s, Boomers started maturing and "helicoptered" their next set of children/students (millennials),". Shouldn't an adult generation's actions reflect their parent-teacher upbringing? Judging by your description of each generation, there is a correlation between the decline in ethics and decline in corporal punishment/strict discipline, but not causation. You said that the un-nurtured children matured, so you just defeated your argument by implying that children mature regardless of the lack of physical punishment. You might be retorting that although they matured, they have abandoned the method of corporal punishment and started spoiling/helicoptering children rather than chiseling them, continuing the decline of ethical standards. As for this "helicoptering", I only agree with it partially. Yeah, there are parents who see their children as an extended soul, but it isn't so in the classroom. In an educational environment, the non-violent relationship between teacher and student isn't caused by this "helicoptering". It's caused by a thing called civilized equality and professionalism. Once a person steps out their house, the social principles that they follow at home are replaced by principles and values of the common people, principles where everyone agrees and are enforced by the law or social norms, which means you can't hit another person, that's called assault. People in public are required to treat everyone on equal ground and formality; there is no disparity in rights and privileges between people. This also applies to children, as they are in a government-run institution. The only thing that's different is that their safety and education is entrusted in the hands of the school, and that they are young and uneducated. You might claim that these teachers had no malice or used their corporal punishment without tyranny or abuse, but there's always that small percentage of teachers who would just LOVE to beat their students, and believe me, I've had a teacher that would've taken the opportunity if it arose, but state laws stopped him. Implementing corporal punishment back into schools might have reaped some benefits possibly, but it would increase the chances of that rare case of a child being beaten over the limit, and just one would make me pissed. Being an Asian myself and being raised by actual Asian parents, I know what my culture values. They don't value education, they value success. In everything. I remember walking to preschool with a bruise across my face from my mom and I don't even remember what I did wrong lol. I was taught to be better than the other kid in class, in fact, ALL the kids in class, and I did. But not because I was beaten when I came home with an F (because I was struggling in class from all the moving from house to house). But because I wanted to be a good student and the subjects were interesting. My older sister was treated the same way but from elementary school to the end of high school, she still behaved and worked the same. She then ran away from home and lived in an apartment with her boyfriend. Anyways, back to Asian cultural values. Asians work in school and the workplace painstakingly because they were hardwired that way for centuries. They want to outdo other countries in everything, particularly Western countries;( look at American boy bands and then look at Asian boy bands, you'll see the difference). Feudalism and Imperialism existed in all the major east Asian countries; I'm not going to explain corporal punishment's function in those systems of government again. They continue this method because Asian countries are more conservative in nature than Western countries. They choose to uphold past traditions not only because of their years of being underdeveloped, but also because they weren't exposed to Enlightenment ideas like Europe and the colonies. Yes, Asians are highly educated and they have produced many good outcomes. But there's always a bad side to every culture and society. In 2015, Japan had an average suicide rate of 70 people per day due to the constant pressure and expectations that their country establishes. This, evidently, reflects the great disadvantage of corporal punishment. Here's MY ideal solution. Infiltrate the media and the western family. Put positive ideas and ingenuity into the minds of the people. That starts with pop culture/tv/music and politics. Get rid of loopholes that allow for the exposure of inappropriate elements into young children. Once they grow up, leave the parenting to them and leave the teaching to the teachers.