Educational measures have changed throughout history and mostly depended on the social structure and culture of the people and the values that were respected. The approach to education was based on the idea of what or for whom a child is being raised, therefore different societies stand out that raised future soldiers, state guards, priests, workers, capitalists, etc. With regard to the goal of education and the approach to the child and his image in society, they applied are educational measures. Various educational measures have been recorded that were used to influence the behavior of educators, however, the principle of rewards and punishments is mentioned from the earliest history to the present day. Among the mentioned punishments, corporal punishment stands out, which has brought a number of controversies in ideas about education. With the development of society, the use of corporal punishment decreased, starting with the prohibition of the application of corporal punishment in school until the legal prohibition of corporal punishment of children in the family. The Council of Europe sets 2009 as the target year by which the ban on corporal punishment would be implemented, and as such corporal punishment would be abolished in the school system and in the family. Although numerous laws and prohibitions against the use of such educational measures are in force today, we are witnessing situations where a parent "pulls a child by the ears" with the justification that he deserved it and that "he will be fine".