nt to 'fairy tales' such as Cinderella, which display the evil stepmother. The similarity between the two implies the manifestation of real life situations in the mythical tales. Discipline mimics the kiss that turns the frog into a prince. The authenticity of this kiss comes from lips that kissed, or in plain English, these are not a product of technology or translation by a foreign tongue. It is a direct reflection of a culture's values as taught to those who will become the meat of the aforementioned culture. When asked about the motives of their disciplinarians, the interviewees generally agreed that discipline, like folklore, is a method used to teach. This follows Piaget's studies that suggest that there are basic steps in a child's development that are universal regardless of the society they come from. The similarity across cultures would lend to a monogenesis of humanity. Discipline, as folklore, instructs us how to be civilized and well mannered. It is the essential part of developing into a respectable member of the human race....
