It is in the nature of things that the pendulum should swing. It’s even in the nature of things that the pendulum, when seeking to correct a previous overswing, goes back too far in the other direction.
It can seem like that in the field of education. Many older people today can well remember how strict their schooldays could be: from top public schools’ frequent use of the cane to national primary schools meting out tough punishments
to children who erred or misbehaved.
And it’s a common recollection that the parental view of school punishment was that “if you were punished, you must have deserved it”. Some can remember being punished again by their parents, just for having been punished at school.
