Spring, summer, fall and winter by Duk.

   Despite a poster on the wall of Mr. Garrioch's classroom, it seems that an eye for an eye sometimes makes the whole world wide awake. The effect of this Hebrew Bible's renowned principle in education is illustrated in the movie, as the boy learns how bad what he had done was by going thorough the same suffering himself.
   I myself, from a young age, was rather antagonistic about the Hebrew Bible's principle. I believed it was such a waste to blind the offender when other compensations could be made to the blind. However, its effects are unquestionable when it comes to teaching a lesson. We often find ourselves subconsciously belittling other's pain. By actually having the offender experience the pain first-handedly, we can make sure that the pain would not be belittled. Pain sticks to the memory-it is a known technique for memorizing things, used from ninjas to modern day test takers. By that pain, the offender would now empathize with the victim, and learn that the action is wrong. They would carry that memory for the rest of their lives, as painful memories stick.
   I know it from my experience that an eye for an eye teaches a everlasting lesson. My younger self was quite arrogant, getting into disputes and arguing for a losing cause. It was not until I met a person like me(and suffered so much from that person that I lost interest in talking to that person totally) that I realized the arrogancy of myself.