Thank god I only got to post 4 to see reason.
I think corporal punishment in schools, or the removal of it, was the biggest step that society did to remove the concept of kids knowing their station. This is probably a poor interpretation, but when I was at school, you accepted and took heed from physical punishment from your elders. That being parents, grand parents, teachers and even the coppers. It kept me in line and made sure I knew my place in life as a kid. Being slapped, caned, belted or even shouted at was unpleasant. And because it was unpleasant, you kept your head clean. Did as you were told, and avoided these punishments. And remember, this is not about one person dishing out violence upon another, but a simple method to nurture good behaviour. The last resort so to speak.
Today, we have a system where those who don't behave are given rewards for good behaviour. That system fails in every department. Bad behaviour is simply manipulated until an offender gets what they want.
When you get a new puppy, giving it a treat because it shat outside will not develop its behaviour. It will never put 2 and 2 together and work out that shitting outside earns a treat. But rubbing the pups nose in the dung mountain in the house after it's expelled the contents of it's pooch rectum, and the pup will not like it. And will be more likely to learn that theres a pattern going on when it gets it's nose rubbed in the shite.
All that happened when corporal punishment was removed from schools, was that the last tool for teachers to persuade respectable dicipline from kids, went out of the window. Kids do what they like because they know there will be no retaliation that will embarass them. Suspension and expulsion doesn't work. Most kids see this as some sort of device to earn respect from their friends.
These kids that leave school with no dicipline or respect for how society works, will continue through life being a pain to society. And no doubt, they will blame their schooling, and education for their problems.
Spot on Compy, you're 100% right there!!! Until we bring back corporal punishment, AND capital punishment, birching, the stocks etc. and start making life very very unpleasant for those that have no respect for society then, near as damnit, we might as well give up.
All of this trouble has been caused by gutless, woolly-minded, hand-wringing do-gooder cretins that have successfully ruined this country since the end of WWII. The'yre called POLITICIANS and all they're interested in is a fat salary and being re-elected so they can maintain that fat salary for as long as possible. They believe that in order to be re-elected each time you mustn't do anything contentious; everything must be middle-of-the-road namby-pamby don't-rock-the-boat sweetness and light and everyone will think they're wonderful.
WELL THEY'RE NOT - they're completely useless C***S; whichever party; makes no difference! Until some politician has got the bollocks to stand up and implement the measures that this country really needs to get it back on its feet, you might as well not bother.
Give the people a ballot paper with a separate box to tick for "NONE OF THE ABOVE" and the politicians (all of them) might just have to sit up and listen and start earning that fat salary. That is, of course, subject to the proviso that by the time we get to that stage in history the population of this country isn't so f*****g illiterate and permanently pissed or stoned that they can actually put a tick in a box!