Suman Seth, “Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926” (MIT Press, 2010)
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The Role of Discipline in the History of Education
In chapter two of your book, you talk about the idea of a folkoonian perspective on education. You say that Foucault's notion of training and discipline is not in place so that people can produce new knowledge. So how then did Zomafelt produce discipline creativity? And what exactly are we training our undergraduates to do? We're training them just to be disciplined, or do we want them to be disciplined and creative? At what stage in the process do we start encouraging them to have a disciplined insubordination?"
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