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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8904121.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.} ========================================================== %DIFFERENCE TECHNICAL VALUE IDEAL QUESTIONS TEACH 890412 Technical education in a liberal arts context should help students learn how to distinguish between purely technical questions and conflicts among values and ideals. Such differences exist, but the differences are not at all clear to technocrats who have not learned to recognize ideals and values as being different from technical relationships. Technocrats are trapped in collusive games of mutual self deception about conflicts among values and ideals. They cannot perceive the conflicts clearly. Thus they can not perceive the difference between ideological conflicts, and questions of a purely technical sort. In the context of technical education it is important to teach students how to deal with purely technical questions; to gain technical competence with which to solve problems which require primarily such technical competence. The problem is that it is not always obvious which competencies are most likely to be important to each particular student. There are thus inevitable conflicts among values and ideals pertaining to how to place value upon the various technical competencies which a student might acquire. Even if there are no significant conflicts within the content of the material which may be learned, there are inevitably implicit conflicts regarding which technical skills should be learned by each particular student. Technical teachers and professors are virtually never overtly taught how to helpfully deal with such value conflicts in ways which show proper respect for the integrity of the students as well as for the integrity of the profession which is implicit in the educational venture. Especially in liberal arts colleges students should be encouraged to examine the dilemmas which will face them when considering the implicit value conflicts within a technical profession. It is not easy to articulate and deal with the implicit value conflicts which are inevitably present when a technically competent person approaches a situation where technical services are needed. A liberating education would help each new generation deal more helpfully with the problems and dilemmas inherent in resolving such conflicts, than did the previous generation. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================