Of course the worst whiners would be the ones who felt the pressure the most. Good for you. Like some ten years into my teaching career a deputy principal was caning the hell out of a student i knew. I walked into the room and gave him hell. Caning was outlawed in Australian public schools in about 1986. Some, yeah you guessed it, still beat the kids https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/school-still-disciplines-with-a-cane-ng-ya-309620 .
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”