What matters more is what comes after a punishment in school and whether the lesson becomes one of fear or one of growth, says Dr Jared Ng, former chief of emergency and crisis care at IMH. SINGAPORE: When I was in Secondary 1, I watched two upper secondary boys being caned in front of the whole school for being caught with prohibited materials. Alongside hundreds of boys who stood watching, I remember the stillness, the silence - then the sound. What stayed with me was not the pain they must