| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38585 |
| QUOTATION: | Punishment followed on a grand scale. For ten days, an unconscionable length of time, my father blessed the palms of his child’s outstretched, four-year-old hands with a sharp switch. Seven strokes a day on each hand; that makes one hundred forty strokes and then some. This put an end to the child’s innocence. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Christoph Meckel (20th century), German author. As quoted in For Your Own Good by Alice Miller, “Poisonous Pedagogy” (1983). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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