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Why did Samuel Gridley Howe oppose corporal punishment in public schools?

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Samuel Gridley Howe opposed the use of corporal punishment in public schools because he advocated for an anti-Calvinist model of education.1

Alongside his colleague Horace Mann, Howe believed that students would achieve better learning outcomes through the use of patience and sympathetic guidance from competent teachers, rather than through the application of punitive threats or physical discipline.1