He called it giving six of the best. I dread to think what have would have happened if he'd done his worse. I hated him. But I passed science and my family regarded this as a minor miracle. But that's not all.
Some people are quite proud of being punished.
I know a bloke who has kept the leather knout which inflicted punishment on him at his school many years ago. He was apparently presented with it at the finish of his schooling. Along with his Diploma. It is a treasured possession and he shows it to visitors. Not the Diploma, the knout.