Education??

Another strange but penetrating verse, cynical and darkly observant.

..why they called it corporal punishment when it was always some sick general of a headmaster dolling it out to kids to feed their craving for power - usually because they were too young to fight in a war themselves.

I think that it may have been, for some of the more sadistic headmasters, a socially acceptable expression of whatever sick perversions or psychological issues were gnawing away at them from the inside. When my father was at school, a friend of his was picked up by the teacher, an alcoholic, and smashed head first through a window. The boy had the last laugh, though, when his dad stormed round the school and knocked seven shades of shit out of the teacher!

Of course, Hitler was once a corporal, Jack - but your Dad's classroom must have been at the school from hell.

It was pretty bad. One art teacher was stabbed to death in his own home and several students were expelled for plotting to string up the headmaster.

cynical and you are at your best when you have that cynical smile,you make a very strong point through this little poem A.

... sounds like St. Trinians for psychos!