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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. 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> | + | |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. 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> |
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. | 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. | ||
Revision as of 15:56, 7 December 2012
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
- http://www.DisciplinedMinds.com, Official website, with details of the court judgment
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. 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>
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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