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Regarding “Discipline”

this passage was mainly focused on discipline. Telling the readers how it is most impotent regarding of what ever is being discussed,As they stated throughout the passage whom ever is a professional in that specific field should be the only one that is capable of making in argument when is comes to there field. By having another intellectual to come against what was already said is basically an indiscipline situation. they give numerous amount of examples regarding that topic, such as if the government have problem concerning a situation they wont necessarily get in contact with a third party regarding the circumstances that they are in. They will try and accomplish that task in there manner even if it means trial and error

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i enjoyed the reading by Martin. In many of the points he made were very crusial to undertand how most of our research are funded and how the results are distributed among the funders. the agenda who gives the largest amount of money will be kept in focus compare to its competitors who wants to follow similar research. we see how universities and colleges have turned in to deciplines, who bagain against themselves for funding. the elite member of every discipline wants to protect the core believe of his/her discipline. but my target of this reading which i find it so interesting is about student and professors.

Martin said that students are not in school for the knowledge but for the credentials. what does this means to our society? this means that students will go to any extreme to get what he/she is in school for, students will cheat in all sorts of ways from replicating their peers work to passing answers and question of exams.

inspite of what the students are doing to get credentials, professors are mostly focus on publications. at cuny, to keep tenur as a professor, you most have publish a few books and journals. professors care more about publishing and maintaining their jobs. i believe also that a good grade of students reflect a better teacher. hence if students cheat to have good grades with no knowledge and the teacher is publishing as required then the discipline may more funds.