Such a familiar phrase or a term of endearment is nonsense coined and used by the teachers to justify their act of barbarity and to camouflage the sadistic pleasure they enjoy from it. Whatever name it has, it is sheer brutality, savagery, cruelty, and ultimately torture. Man becomes beast the moment he means to inflict physical pain on other living creatures. A kind mother full of affection for her baby or a good and respected teacher by the students is no exception. Corporal punishment for education is itself a contradiction in terms.
Education is the very effort to tame, subdue and finally rid the beast sleeping in man.
We educate man to make him realize the inherent dehumanizing quality in the use of physical force, and instead to awaken him to the virtue of words. The first educated man in the history of human civilization used all the most abusive language available to vent his anger toward his rival, instead of cracking his skull with his ax. The existence of corporal punishment at school is a great anachronism of our time, when it is already abolished by law and in the military barracks, and in the police.