As we listened to his explanations, however, something in our spirit said, “That’s not true. The Bible says that sparing the rod will do great harm to a child’ ” (Prov. 13:24; 22:15; 23:13–14). When the time came for the final exam and we saw the question, “Compare and contrast different methods of child discipline,” though we knew the answer, we didn’t buy it. (We got our A on the exam while preserving our integrity, by writing something like, “According to the material presented in class …” That