Discipline and obedience work hand in hand together alongside the horme and the will. I will be elaborating on this by looking at it from Montessori’s perspective. Many people/ theorists have their own idea regarding the meanings of obedience and discipline. Hopefully this essay will help to bring clarity to those that struggle to understand a child’s level of obedience or discipline. According to Oxford School Dictionary (2002), discipline means orderly and obedient behaviour or to train to be…
good men Comparative Analysis Obedience to authority is something that is drilled into almost every child in almost every culture. We've been taught to always obey your elders, and always listen to the directions given. All throughout school you’ve been made to not question the system or what the teachers tell you. This contributes to later on in the life of military personnel, who are made into soldiers with blinding loyalty. But is it really loyalty, or is it obedience to authority in another…
Obedience in the Workplace Within the law enforcement community, there are a set of guidelines which are in place to protect the law enforcement officers, and the citizens in the community that is served. Compliance to the rules and regulations is expected from officers, in addition to obedience of orders. Law enforcement must also comply with a code of ethics in which the officer will serve mankind and protect the public, while preserving liberty, equality, and justice. The code of ethics…
“If a man can only obey and not disobey, he is a slave; if he can only disobey and not obey, he is a rebel” (Fromm 125). Obedience is a trait that parents instill in children to keep them safe and out of trouble. Throughout life, people realize obedience is not always the answer; however, ruling out obeying as a whole is counterproductive. In “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem”, Erich Fromm claims people fear authority, yet wish to climb the ladder to reach maximum power. In…
concept of passive obedience is one such occurrence. Passive obedience to the masses may seem similar to willful ignorance of a shoddy king’s ways, but it is also a sensible course of action in preserving one’s life, as well as one’s afterlife. During the time of monarchies, the only way to change the regime was through death, which is never a sure course; ergo the reasonable path is to protect oneself and others through passive obedience. Luther’s perspective on passive obedience shows a…
NAME: TAY CHEE SIN STUDENT ID: 1001231566 Directed Self Learning Milgram’s Obedience Experiment The Milgram’s Obedience experiment was one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology. This was a series of experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University in 1963, 1964 and 1965. The purpose of this study was to measure the willingness of participants to obey an instruction from an authorized person who instructed them to perform acts if it involved…
sound. The article “The Perils of Obedience” written by Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist and infamous for his obedience experiment, focuses on the frequent human nature to submit to an authoritative figure. Milgram links his results to the reason why some Nazis carried out such ruthless acts: obedience overrules ethics in most cases (Milgram 89). Relatedly, Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton composed the article “The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience” to attempt to…
genocide by simply obeying blindly. The result of blind obedience, total eleven million deaths. During the Holocaust, the factors that contribute to people to blindly obey are that it is ingrain that everyone must have obedience towards authority, it fulfills psychological needs and fear of the result of not obeying authority. Ingrains / ingrained in the human 's mind that humans must have obedience towards authority which explains many Germans obedience towards the Nazi. The dictionary…
plays a significant role in our lives today, it raises us to believe that obedience is good and disobedience is bad. Stanley Milgram is well known for his experiments on obedience, they are considered to be the "most important social-psychological experiments of all time" (Milgram Two). Milgram was criticized by many and was often cited as a psychologist who deceived many people through his experiments. His experiment Obedience to Authority consisted of a phony shocking device, a learner, a…
consider the roles obedience and disobedience have played in these events. Obedience is the conformance of rules established by an authority figure. On the other hand, disobedience is the refusal to follow the rules established by an authority figure, even when realizing the consequences. In A People 's History of the United States, Howard Zinn states that the most terrible things have occurred in the United States as a result of obedience. Zinn’s statement is invalid because both obedience and…