For motivating and remedial purposes, a teacher :

Concept

Motivation and remediation are learner-support processes. They use encouragement, diagnosis of learning gaps, constructive feedback, counselling, and appropriate instructional support.

School discipline must protect a learner's dignity and safety; physical punishment and humiliating treatment are not remedial methods. Section 17 of the Right to Education Act prohibits physical punishment and mental harassment.

Application

Statements permitting unrestricted beating, mild beating, or light punishments all treat punishment as a teaching tool. The statement that a teacher cannot beat students and that corporal punishment is prohibited is consistent with child-safe remedial practice and Section 17.

Contrast

• “can beat her students” permits corporal punishment without qualification.

• “can mildly beat her students” assumes that lower intensity makes physical punishment pedagogically acceptable.

• “can give some light punishments” substitutes punitive control for diagnosis, support, and corrective teaching.

• “cannot beat students; corporal punishment is prohibited” rejects physical force and points toward lawful, non-violent discipline.

Result

Therefore, for motivating and remedial purposes, a teacher cannot beat students; corporal punishment is prohibited.