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|description=This book explains the social agenda of the process of professional training. Disciplined Minds shows how it is used to promote orthodoxy by detecting and weeding out dissident candidates and by exerting pressure on the rest to obey their instructors and abandon personal agendas such as social reform -- so that they, in turn, can perpetuate the system by squeezing the life out of the next generation. Shortly after writing this book, Jeff Schmidt was fired from his position as Editor of the academic journal, Physics Today. After many years of legal battling, he was judged to have been dismissed without good cause, awarded a considerable sum of damages and reappointed, whereupon he swiftly resigned. | |description=This book explains the social agenda of the process of professional training. Disciplined Minds shows how it is used to promote orthodoxy by detecting and weeding out dissident candidates and by exerting pressure on the rest to obey their instructors and abandon personal agendas such as social reform -- so that they, in turn, can perpetuate the system by squeezing the life out of the next generation. Shortly after writing this book, Jeff Schmidt was fired from his position as Editor of the academic journal, Physics Today. After many years of legal battling, he was judged to have been dismissed without good cause, awarded a considerable sum of damages and reappointed, whereupon he swiftly resigned. | ||
|read=Read by [[Lyn Gerry]] from episodes [[175]] - [[201]]. | |read=Read by [[Lyn Gerry]] from episodes [[175]] - [[201]]. | ||
| − | |seealso=* [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/Disciplined%20Minds%20(Audiobook).mp3 Complete audiobook as a single MP3], 13 hours 8 minutes, 360MB | + | |seealso=* [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/Disciplined%20Minds%20(Audiobook).mp3 Complete audiobook as a single MP3], 13 hours 8 minutes, 360MB<br/>* [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/Disciplined%20Minds%20(Audiobook).zip ZIPed chapters plus playlist], 316MB |
| − | * [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/Disciplined%20Minds%20(Audiobook).zip ZIPed chapters plus playlist], 316MB | + | |
* [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive.php?url=audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/ Browse the chapters for download] | * [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive.php?url=audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/ Browse the chapters for download] | ||
* [http://www.DisciplinedMinds.com http://www.DisciplinedMinds.com], Official website, with details of the court judgement | * [http://www.DisciplinedMinds.com http://www.DisciplinedMinds.com], Official website, with details of the court judgement | ||
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Disciplined Minds
A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives, by Jeff Schmidt (2000)
Read by Lyn Gerry from episodes 175 - 201. List of Episodes
* Complete audiobook as a single MP3, 13 hours 8 minutes, 360MB
* ZIPed chapters plus playlist, 316MB
- Browse the chapters for download
- http://www.DisciplinedMinds.com, Official website, with details of the court judgement
Episode 339 has an interview with Jeff Schmidt about this book.
This book explains the social agenda of the process of professional training. Disciplined Minds shows how it is used to promote orthodoxy by detecting and weeding out dissident candidates and by exerting pressure on the rest to obey their instructors and abandon personal agendas such as social reform -- so that they, in turn, can perpetuate the system by squeezing the life out of the next generation. Shortly after writing this book, Jeff Schmidt was fired from his position as Editor of the academic journal, Physics Today. After many years of legal battling, he was judged to have been dismissed without good cause, awarded a considerable sum of damages and reappointed, whereupon he swiftly resigned.
By Chapter:
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