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Words with Elise: "Discipline"

Latin, disciplina (instruction, knowledge), before it comes to mean "mortification by scourging oneself" in Middle English.

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I want to talk about the etymology of “discipline,” which isn’t that complex. It comes from “disciple,” it comes from teaching, being led, knowledge really. And it’s interesting to me because discipline, now, is effectively a form of punishment or this idea that it’s beyond instruction, it’s with a cudgel or with a whip. And we pursue discipl…

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