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This-essay is a7309282.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %FULFILLING TRENDS 730928 In any study designed to be helpful in setting priorities it is essential to take into consideration relevant data which may make possible wise value judgments leading to helpful decisions and action. Often included in the relevant data is information regarding trends; e.g., traffic counts on city streets and highways, energy consumption rates, numbers of students attending college, numbers of students majoring in various scientific disciplines, etc. The detection of trends can be an important aspect of the consideration of relevant data which may make possible wise value judgments. Regrettably, technocrats often unwisely regard trends as unalterable realities, and make the value judgment that decisions and action should be based on the assumption that the trend will be fulfilled in a way which can be mathematically predicted on the basis of relevant data from the past. This pattern of "thinking" leads to technocrats serving as essential links in feed-back loops which facilitate the fulfillment of the predictions. Value judge-ments are not made in reality. Real persons cease to live. Persons become only parts of a complex machine whose future is determined by its past, with technocrats acting thoughtlessly to fulfill their own mathematical predictions of what the future of the thoughtless machine will be. Real persons participate in creative value judgments leading to decisions and actions which create future trends. Real persons help to make the future become what it might be through humane choice. Technocrats cause the future to become what it must be through cause and effect. Real persons (through their anticipation of the consequences of current trends coupled with thoughtful value judgments) become the agents through which a possible future leads to wise decisions and actions in the present. The efforts of real persons can thus transcend the categories of cause and effect. Technocrats, on the other hand, tend to fulfill the categories cause and effect. Data regarding recent trends in science education can not properly be the justification for value judgments regarding the proper decisions and actions for science educators to engage in. Such data is relevant, but need not be determinative. Data without insight is deadly. (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in GO: essayz.com "Search for Integrity and Honesty" (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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