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This-essay is a7808222.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 ========================================================== %TRANSMITTING SCIENTISTS' VALUES 780822 It is important to be aware of the manner in which our scientists transmit their values to the next generation of scientists and citizens. Humane values will be threatened to the extent that our scientists' values are transmitted covertly in ways which place scientists' values outside of the range of our students' critical examination. If our scientists make it difficult for our students to publicly evaluate scientists' values, then our scientists' "educational programs" would better be recognized as religious cults or indoctrination programs. How do our scientists make it difficult for our students to publicly evaluate the scientists' values? By transmitting their values covertly, and excommunicating students who fail to internalize the scientists' values uncritically. Students who do not internalize the scientists' values uncritically---find it very difficult to master the knowledge and skills which are predicated upon whole-hearted acceptance of the scientists' values. The profoundly critical students thus do poorly in our scientists' courses, and are flunked-out for "objective" reasons which mask the value-conflict which is the basic ground for excommunication. Often the students are not aware of what has happened: they may not even be conscious of the focal value-conflict. They may only have dim uneasy feelings of dis-ease and instinctively be inclined to avoid our scientists as a threat to humane life of the kind that they themselves value. Our scientists transmit their values by the examples they give their students: how they spend their time, how they do not spend their time, the kinds of people they consider to be unworthy of their consideration; non-verbal communications expressing disdain, arrogance, technocratic fascination, etc. The life-styles of our scientists are powerful expressions which transmit the scientists' values: the long hours in the laboratory, the indifference to non-technical realities, the exclusion of non-formal communications, and a compulsive preoccupation with problem solving. Of course, none of these modes of transmission of values can helpfully be prohibited. It is essential, however, to help students recognize our scientists' values and the manner in which the values are being transmitted. Liberal arts colleges especially should provide programs which will help students engage in and profit from profoundly critical examinations of our scientists' values; and how they are transmitted. (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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