Disciplinate

I am Potentiſsima Domina, a ſchoole-maiſter, that is to ſay, a Pedagogue, one not a litle verſed in the diſciplinating of the iuuentall frie, wherein (to my laud I ſay it) I vſe ſuch geometricall proportion, as neither wanted manſuetude nor correction, for ſo it is deſcribed.

And againe, aſking whether all refoꝛmed Churches are diſciplinated alike he ſayth, Nay; they neyther are, can be, nor yet neede ſo to be: ſeeing it cannot be prooued, that any set & exact perticuler forme thereof, is recommended to vs by the Worde of God, pag. 58.

How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such sort disciplinated, that he lost not one hour of the Day

In recent times, the question concerning the compelling need, for the human being, to disciplinate itself, and even “tame” or domesticate itself, in order to really become a human being (“an animal that can say: ‘I’”) has been emphasized, among others, by the Italian philosopher Felice Cimatti.