Securely attached confidence in court texts evidences non-corporal child-raising.

Evidence

The boy is fluent. He is witty. He is confident. He addresses the king without fear. He gives opinions — aesthetic opinions, including disagreements with conventional taste — with composure. He does not flinch. He does not tremble. He does not beg. He is, in modern psychological terms, securely attached. He is what you get when a child has been raised by adults who did not strike him. … The product was the proof of the method. Children raised non-corporally produce adults who are confident, fluent, and unafraid. — , The Rod and the Child, 1135

Categorization

• QUESTION: The inferential chain (prescriptive texts plus polished products equal pedagogy) is acknowledged as partly speculative — worth tracing how strong the evidence actually is.
• XREF: connects to: Judges’ attitudes cannot be reliably inferred from opinion rhetoric — Richard A. Posner, What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?, 120

Broader Connections

• Judges’ attitudes cannot be reliably inferred from opinion rhetoric #complicates (0.70) — Richard A. Posner, What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?, 120