English school caning, March 1958 - CORPUN ARCHIVE uksc5803
Peter Duryea, prefect at a private school here, got his "six of the best" by slipping out after lights for a dance in town. Four other boys involved also got lashed. The only trouble with whipping Peter was that he was on an exchange scholarship.
Six of the best - wipipedia.org
Six of the best is a phrase that refers to a (chiefly British) method of physical punishment. "Six of the best" was a classic punishment for boys. Six strokes or "cuts" are delivered with a cane onto the delinquent's buttocks. The punishment could be given either on the seat of the trousers or shorts, on the briefs, or on the bare bottom.
“I’ve just been Beaten” - Moonglow
He would have given him six of the best next morning. Daniel had never been beaten before, but I wondered how much that was due to the angelic innocence he was capable of summonsing up. A good sixer across that plump bottom would have changed his image!
Education: Six of the Best - TIME
Wildman brandished his prized 30-inch Dragon Smoky Malacca, “a very pliant and punishing cane.” “And how many strokes do you advise?” Headmaster Copping asked. Smiling, Wildman suggested “Six...
The punishment system 1927-1961 - Old Cicestrians
The present Head Teacher still has the school Punishment Book, in which details of canings had to be entered, and the school cane from those days. On occasions when groups of old boys are at the school it is made available for inspection to those interested in its contents.
School caning, UK, Nov 1948 - CORPUN ARCHIVE uksc4811
ERIC A. WILDMAN, London cane manufacturer and leader of the organisation to maintain corporal punishment for erring children, received "six of the best" from his most highly recommended means of punishment -- the Dragon Smoky Malacca -- when he visited a self-expression school at Horsley Hall, near here, to-night.
Being punished - British Schools Museum
The cane was used to deliver 'six of the best', although usually for really bad or repeatedly bad behaviour. Other methods of punishment included writing lines (copying out a line hundreds of time, ensuring excellent penmanship); or being made to wear the 'Dunce's Hat' and sit in the corner of the classroom; and then there was detention...
Six of the best! ROGER DOWLING (Editor) - Issuu
Under-age smoking was clearly an ongoing issue, regularly attracting four strokes of the cane. ‘Six of the best’ was, as might be expected, reserved for what were regarded as the gravest...
"Six of the Best" - Cranbrook Centenary
"Six of the Best" Today Australian school children are punished with litter duty or detention, but for much of the twentieth century corporal punishment was conceived as an integral part of educational discipline that “like war, is never good, but is sometimes necessary and inevitable”. 1
Education: The Cane & the Strap - TIME
A t least one quaint custom of British education has not changed since Tom Brown’s Schooldays: the tradition of “six of the best” for misbehaving pupils. Although the cane and the strap are...
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