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''A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives''
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|title=Disciplined Minds
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|subtitle=A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives
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|author=Jeff Schmidt
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|published=2000
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|ISBM=0847693643
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|dewey=305.5/53/0973 21
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|congress=HT687 .S35 2000
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|oclc= 43540936
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|wikipedia=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplined_Minds
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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.
  
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A book by [[Jeff Schmidt]] about the social agenda of the process of professional training,
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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.
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and how it is used to promote orthodoxy by detecting and weeding out candidates with the most
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critical view and by exerting pressure on the rest to obey their instructors and abandon
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a social agenda or efforts to reform injustices. So that they, in turn, can squeeze the
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life out of the next generation. Shortly after writing this book, Jeff Schmidt was fired
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from his position as Editor of the academic journal, Physics Today. After many years of
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legal battling, he was judged to have been dismissed without good cause, awarded a  
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considerable sum of damages and reappointed, whereupon he swiftly resigned.
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'''Read by Lyn from episodes @@@-@@@'''
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==Reviews==
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[[John Pilger]] begins his review entitled '[http://johnpilger.com/articles/brainwashing-the-polite-and-professional-way Brainwashing the polite and professional way]' by referring to this book as "one of the most original and provocative books of the past decade". The book's theme, writes Pilger "is postmodern America but also applies to Britain, where the corporate state has bred a new class of Americanised manager to run the private and public sectors: the banks, the main parties, corporations, important committees, the BBC". He proceeds to cite a string of examples which underscore how relevant Schmidt's analysis is to understanding the "corporate coup d’état" that has swept through Britain, and attempted to destroy alternative visions of how we might live.
  
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== See Also ==
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The book has generally been favorably reviewed, with one reviewer calling it "bold and refreshing" and noting that "Schmidt’s voice has the authenticity of experience and concern, and thus has a much more subversive quality" than the traditional sociological approaches.<ref>http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/01BRrt.html</ref>
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* [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/schmidt/radio-reading/ Lyn's readings], chapter by chapter
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|read=Read by [[Lyn Gerry]] from episodes [[175]] - [[201]].
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* [http://www.DisciplinedMinds.com http://www.DisciplinedMinds.com], official website, with details of the court judgement
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|audiobook=* [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/Disciplined%20Minds%20(Audiobook).mp3 Audiobook] (360MB, 13 Hour MP3 file)<br/>* [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/Disciplined%20Minds%20(Audiobook).zip Audiobook Chapters plus playlist] (316MB ZIP file)
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|seealso=* [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive.php?url=audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/ Browse the chapters for download]
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* [http://www.DisciplinedMinds.com http://www.DisciplinedMinds.com], Official website, with details of the court judgment
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|note=[[339|Episode 339]] has an interview with [[Jeff Schmidt]] about this book.
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|contents=By Chapter:
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/01%20Timid%20Professionals.mp3 Timid Professionals] [[175]], [[176]]
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/02%20Ideological%20Discipline.mp3 Ideological Discipline] [[177]], [[178]]
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/03%20Insiders,%20Guests%20and%20Crashers.mp3 Insiders, Guests and Crashers] [[179]]
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/04%20Assignable%20Curiosity.mp3 Assignable Curiosity] [[180]]
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# (Unsuitable for reading out due to multiplicity of formulae)
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/06%20The%20Division%20of%20Labor.mp3 The Division of Labor] [[181]]
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/07%20Opportunity.mp3 Opportunity] [[182]], [[183]], [[184]]
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/08%20Narrowing%20The%20Political%20Spectrum.mp3 Narrowing the Political Spectrum] [[185]], [[186]]
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/09%20The%20Primacy%20of%20Attitude.mp3 The Primacy of Attitude] [[187]]
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/10%20Examining%20the%20Examination.mp3 Examining the Examination] [[188]], [[189]]
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/11%20Gratuitous%20Bias.mp3 Gratuitous Bias] [[190]]
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/12%20'Neutral'%20Voices.mp3 "Neutral" Voices] [[192]]
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/13%20Subordination.mp3 Subordination] [[193]]
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/14%20Resisting%20Indoctrination.mp3 Resisting Indoctrination] [[194]], [[195]], [[196]]
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/15%20How%20to%20Survive%20Professional%20Training.mp3 How to Survive Professional Training with Your Values Intact] [[197]], [[198]], [[199]]
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# [http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/audiobooks/Disciplined%20Minds/16%20Now%20or%20Never.mp3 Now or Never] [[200]], [[201]]
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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
* Audiobook (360MB, 13 Hour MP3 file)
* Audiobook Chapters plus playlist (316MB ZIP file)
* Browse the chapters for download

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.

Reviews

John Pilger begins his review entitled 'Brainwashing the polite and professional way' by referring to this book as "one of the most original and provocative books of the past decade". The book's theme, writes Pilger "is postmodern America but also applies to Britain, where the corporate state has bred a new class of Americanised manager to run the private and public sectors: the banks, the main parties, corporations, important committees, the BBC". He proceeds to cite a string of examples which underscore how relevant Schmidt's analysis is to understanding the "corporate coup d’état" that has swept through Britain, and attempted to destroy alternative visions of how we might live.

The book has generally been favorably reviewed, with one reviewer calling it "bold and refreshing" and noting that "Schmidt’s voice has the authenticity of experience and concern, and thus has a much more subversive quality" than the traditional sociological approaches.<ref>http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/01BRrt.html</ref>

By Chapter:
  1. Timid Professionals 175, 176
  2. Ideological Discipline 177, 178
  3. Insiders, Guests and Crashers 179
  4. Assignable Curiosity 180
  5. (Unsuitable for reading out due to multiplicity of formulae)
  6. The Division of Labor 181
  7. Opportunity 182, 183, 184
  8. Narrowing the Political Spectrum 185, 186
  9. The Primacy of Attitude 187
  10. Examining the Examination 188, 189
  11. Gratuitous Bias 190
  12. "Neutral" Voices 192
  13. Subordination 193
  14. Resisting Indoctrination 194, 195, 196
  15. How to Survive Professional Training with Your Values Intact 197, 198, 199
  16. Now or Never 200, 201
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