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                                           %HONESTY 731003

     Continuing   renewal  of  the  educational  situation
depends  critically on free interchange of  views  between
real students and their instructors.  If the instructional
situation  inhibits  free  interchange  of  views,    then
continuing renewal  of  the  educational situation will be
inhibited.   When people do not feel free to share  openly
their  views  and  feelings,  people  tend  to  fall  into
patterns of representing themselves to be,  and thereby in
part becoming,   what they  think  or feel "others" expect
them  to be.  In  such a situation there is a  fundamental
lack of personal honesty and integrity.

     There  has  been a tradition to require  students  to
observe  academic honesty in American education.   Efforts
in  this  direction  constitute  an  admission  that   our
educational   situation  in  general  fails  to  encourage
genuine  total  honesty between students and  instructors.
They often find themselves engaged in a game---wherein the
students maneuver  for  high  grades---and  the instructor
maneuvers  for the maintenance standards  with respect  to
the grade point average.

     In   this  situation  motivations  tend   to   direct
attention  away from increasing human growth to perfecting
techniques    of    bureaucratic    advancement     and/or
entrenchment.  When the student  and  the  instructor find
themselves  cast  as  combatants in a game with  uncertain
and/or changing rules, it is natural that honesty lose its
position of respect in daily conversation.

     If  this analysis points toward a situation which  is
in any sense  real,  it strongly suggests that  we need to
return to honesty as one of the essential touch-stones for
testing the basic integrity of an educational program.  We
have become so accustomed to daily subtle dishonesty, that
many people will fail to perceive  the situation  to which
this  analysis  points.    Therein  is a  measure  of  the
seriousness  of our current situation.  Only a miracle can
release us from an unrecognized prison.

                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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