Gove orders return to old-fashioned school discipline - with pupils 'writing lines' Education Secretary dubs tough punishment 'just as important as praise' ...

Misbehaving pupils face the prospect being of being told to pick up litter or write out lines hundreds of times under plans by Education Michael Gove for a return to traditional classroom discipline.

Lines written by "naughty pupils" are among the 18,000 inscribed shards of pottery discovered at an ... A large number of ostraca also contain writing exercises that the team classifies as ...