What value have you derived from having studied a discipline so deeply?
Kathleen Wells: You are a Kabbalist, which means you study a discipline and school of thought concerned with the mystical aspect of Rabbinic Judaism, correct?
Your choice of A-Levels needs to reflect your desire to study a discipline.
"If you weren't at university studying a particular discipline (and even if you were)," she goes on, "Pelican books were the way to get the gist of things, and education seemed like a capacious bag into which all manner of information was thrown, without the slightest concern about where it belonged in the taxonomy of knowledge.
Eventually I made my way to college, the Peace Corps, and graduate school, where I studied anthropology, a discipline with a long history of combating racism and ethnic and religious intolerance.
Someone studying painting, will also learn a discipline like woodshop or computer design, and be required to take a theory course.
There I met several university students who were studying sport science--a discipline I previously didn't realize even existed!
Building blocks: Potvin spent just over a year studying architectural design, a discipline he chose because he wanted to be creative but not a starving artist.
He can't have made many friends among the faculty on the Afro-American studies programme, a discipline that was more or less founded at Harvard.
Perhaps even more important, the transformation of the department at Harvard has national implications, at a time when Afro-American studies as a discipline has been under assault.
On 30 April 2012, Naomi Schaefer Riley, a blogger for the Brainstorm blog on The Chronicle of Higher Education's website, argued (and poorly so) that black studies as a discipline should disappear.
