One of my favorite college professors badgered his students with the dictum: "Define your terms if you want an intelligent discussion." Yet I find that is exactly what people fail to do when they discuss discipline, resulting in a lot of misunderstandings.  By clearing up these common misunderstandings in the pages ahead, I hope we can clarify the cloudier elements of the discipline issue.

It's important at the outset to look at the critical difference between the noun discipline and the verb discipline...