I bent over a chair and was given three of the best with my trousers on. I did not think he lightened his strokes. I have never understood why Western educationists are so much against corporal punishment. It did my fellow students and me no harm.

— Lee Kuan Yew The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (1998)

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