Discipline Good ˈdɪsəplɪn School Strict Imposed Training Lack

• the school has a reputation for high standards of discipline.
• strict discipline is imposed on army recruits.
• harsh/rigorous/rigid/iron discipline
• she keeps good discipline in class.

discipline

1. the practice of training people to obey rules and orders and punishing them if they do not; the controlled behaviour or situation that is the result of this training
• OPPOSITE indiscipline
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• The school has a reputation for high standards of discipline.
• Strict discipline is imposed on army recruits.
• harsh/rigorous/rigid/iron discipline
• She keeps good discipline in class.
• to instill/enforce/impose/maintain discipline
• Lack of discipline at home meant that many pupils found it difficult to settle in to the ordered environment of the school.
• a serious breach of discipline

Extra Examples

• He quickly brought order and discipline to the regiment.
• It's unfair to dismiss somebody for a single breach of discipline.
• Modern schools lack discipline.
• She believes children need discipline.
• Students have to learn discipline.
• The chancellor has stabilized the economy through strict fiscal discipline.
• The new headmaster tightened discipline in the school.
• The school was criticized for having very poor discipline.
• The teacher was unable to maintain discipline.
• They submitted to the discipline imposed by their leaders.
• We need better discipline in our schools.
• We need someone who is good at instilling discipline.
• a breakdown of discipline in the classroom
• strict military discipline
• the discipline that the party exercises over its members
2. a method of training your mind or body or of controlling your behaviour; an area of activity where this is necessary
• Yoga is a good discipline for learning to relax.
3. the ability to control your behaviour or the way you live, work, etc.
• SEE ALSO self-discipline
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• He'll never get anywhere working for himself—he's got no discipline.
• Her determination and discipline were admirable.

Extra Examples

• It is good discipline to learn to delegate.
• It takes great discipline to learn a musical instrument.
• something to help you bring discipline to your decision-making process
4. an area of knowledge; a subject that people study or are taught, especially in a university
• The new recruits were drawn from a range of academic disciplines.

Extra Examples

• Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems.
• Applications are welcome from candidates with a degree in a mathematics or other relevant discipline.
• social work and its related disciplines
• experts in multiple disciplines
• academics from diverse academic disciplines
• When did sociology emerge as a distinct discipline?
• They established psychology as an academic discipline.
• The university offers a wide range of disciplines.
• There is a lack of communication across disciplines.
• Students are to be tested on the three core disciplines: mathematics, English and science.
• Within a discipline there may be more than one school of thought.

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the sense ‘mortification by punishing oneself’): via Old French from Latin disciplina ‘instruction, knowledge’, from discipulus ‘learner’, from discere ‘learn’.