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This-essay is a7704251.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 ========================================================== %COMMITMENT TO STUDENTS 770425 Many teachers are more committed to their specialized profession than they are committed to the personal welfare of their students. The students who cannot succeed in copying the teacher's professional patterns of behavior do not fit into the teacher's patterns of concern. The failing student is not of great concern to such a teacher because the teacher's concern is not focused upon the student's welfare, but upon the welfare of the profession and his position within it. Unless the student is able to advance the profession or the teacher's position within it, the student can serve no useful purpose. Thus, mutuality of concern between students and such teachers is elitist in nature. Their mutual concerns tend to perpetuate the narrow concerns of the specialized profession---concern which undermines commitment to students' personal welfare irrespective of any exclusive commitment to the welfare of the specialized profession. Colleges that seek the services of highly competent specialized teachers are likely to victimize their students with the temptation to join such teachers' professional collusions---or face rejection. The colleges which are ostensibly dedicated to liberal arts education are especially likely to victimize students by false representations of the services offered by specialized teacher. Students seeking liberation from narrow perspectives are tempted to adopt the narrow perspectives of the highly specialized teachers who are valued for their great technical competence---to the exclusion of personal interest in students as whole persons. Liberal arts colleges would do service to their students by seeking educators whose primary commitment is to students' welfare, rather than to their own professional advancement or to the abstract advancement of knowledge. The belief that the student's welfare will be best served via an exclusive commitment to abstract knowledge and its advancement---tends to promote self- justification by specialists who do not personally know what is means to be personally committed to students' personal welfare. In a competitive market those colleges will survive which best serve the students who seek liberation from narrow specialized interests. Exclusively technically oriented teachers will not promote such service. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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