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%PURPOSE OF INSTRUCTION 770916
Ostensibly the purpose of instruction is to
facilitate learning on the part of students. Through
unfortunate circumstances the purpose of instruction is
often perverted to: (1) Providing the instructors with
income, prestige, self-esteem, audiences for
indoctrination, victims for sadistic behavior or overt
and/or subtle character, etc.; (2) Providing
administrators with instructors to administer in order to
be able to climb the professional ladder, (3) Providing
trustees with an enterprise from which they may gain
satisfaction as absentee land-lords. Each perversion due
to unfortunate circumstances occasions future unfortunate
circumstances which will be costly in many ways to those
victimized. Amelioration of present perversions will cost
less than amelioration of all the future perversions
occasioned by present perversions---waiting will not make
things get better, and they are likely to get worse in the
absence of ameliorative efforts.
The purpose of instruction will be served by focusing
on the facilitation of learning on the part of students;
not on THE requirement or certification of learning.
Facilitation is a subjective process at heart, not an
objective process. Ascertainment of the reality of
facilitation involves subjective reports from students;
reports which are likely to be repressed in a JUDGMENTAL,
authoritarian, legalistic, exclusive, perfectionist,
idealistic, moralistic, etc. type of environment. Such
environments thus undermine the feed-back which
instructors need in order to refine their efforts as
facilitation learning; i.e., they undermine effective
instruction. The people who formulate such environments
to promote instruction engage in counter-productive
efforts; regardless of how sincere, respected,
sophisticated, intellectual, specialized, and powerful
they may be. Intentions do not determine effects, even
though they may play a very significant role. Intentions
which lack integrity tend to effect undesirable results---
more often than integrative intentions effect desirable
results. Thus those who would facilitate instruction need
to seek integrity.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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