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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8904031.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %TEACH SCIENCE TECHNOCRACY IDEALS VALUES HONESTLY 890403 When the teaching of science and technology is separated from the overt consideration of ideals and values, the process of instruction becomes an indoctrination aspect of a technocratic society. When science and technology are not taught overtly and honestly as means towards the achievement of explicit ideals and values, science and technology themselves become the foci of ideals and values. Means become ends when they are not openly and honestly seen to be in the service of specific transcendent ideals and values. The process of teaching science and technology takes the time of the professors and the students. The professors by spending their time and asking students to spend their time are professing the value they see in the technology. Human time is the ultimate limited human resource. To spend time on an activity is to affirm the worth of the activity. To seduce/require students to spend the best years of their life in learning specific skills is to teach them that the skills are worthy of their time. If no other values and ideals are taught at the same time, it is inevitable that students will learn that the technical knowledge and skills are inherently valuable in and of themselves. To avoid the traps of addiction to science and technology, science and technology professors must overtly and honestly deal with the issues present in value conflicts relating to the proper uses of science and technology. To pretend to avoid the teaching of values in science and technology classes is to contribute to the development of a technocratic society in which the professors and students are blind to their own ideals and values; and so to contribute to the development of a collusive society addicted to science and technology. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================