Hilliard Caldwell - Punishment and role of school (clip)

Hilliard Caldwell: Child abuse was never mentioned. It was not even a word. Abuse was not even mentioned back in those days. We got many a [unclear.] And as Eddie Murphy used to say in one of his jokes, that his mom used to whup him and said, the louder he cried the louder she whupped. And he said, and I remember one joke he said, his mom would stay in jail today if he was growing up today and she used the same principle. He said it didn’t kill him. It instilled into him and those of us who came along in that era that you respect your adults. You respected your parents, and they taught you right from wrong. And you better not do anything wrong, but you would suffer for it. And it was good. I have no problems with the way I was raised. It was hard times, but it was good times. It was hard times, but it was fair times. It was hard times, but we appreciated what was there. We appreciated our parents. We appreciated our school structure, the community structure, the church structure. All of these were important components of growing up. The school played an important part of your growing up. The church was vital. The homelife was vital. Today that’s not the case. Today it is so fragmented.