Alternative to physical punishment

While I was a student of Notre Dame College, I got acquainted with a philosophy of the Notre Dame family. It was, they did not believe in physical punishment which creates unwanted distance and malice between the teacher and the students. What then the Notre Dame College teachers did to punish the guilty? If any student was found absent-minded or undisciplined, teachers gave him more assignments than the other students. Doing all the problems of math exercise, writing all the principles of a physics chapter ten times or drawing a number of graphs was among the punishments. If anyone neglected his assignments, he was given twice more assignments. On further negligence his results would be withheld and his guardians took his responsibility. This not only made us disciplined but also increased our efficiency. We became more sincere considering the burden of a large number of assignments. I request the education ministry to take this into consideration instead of physical punishment.