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     So long as an educational situation is maintained  by
an  objective  evaluation  process which is  empowered  by
society,   students  within  that situation  will  not  be
greatly   motivated  to  engage  in  any  searching  self-
evaluation.  The dominant focus of their attention is more
likely  to be upon techniques to achieve a student-desired
result  in  the objective evaluation of playing  collusive
games of mutual self deception.

     It  should  be  openly recognized that the process of
successfully  meeting  externally  imposed  standards   of
achievement---does  not  generate  habits  and  motivation
which endure beyond the time period when  those  standards
are  imposed.   The habits which are developed  are habits
which  are  helpful  in  meeting  the  externally  imposed
standards.  As soon as that  pattern of externally imposed
standards passes, the habits become passe.

     Consider a student  who is liberated from  externally
imposed   standards---and   is  guided   into   personally
selecting and internalizing appropriate goals and foci  of
attention.  He or she will continue to grow.   Leaving the
persons    who    facilitated    the    selections     and
internalization---will  not  result  in  the decay of  the
integrative habits and  behavior  patterns which  resulted
from that educational endeavor.  Motivation will flow from
the  soul---rather  than  from  academic  policies,    and
therefore will be effective.

     American   higher  education  will  elicit  students'
respect when it learns to respect the need of students  to
maintain  their personal integrity through the exercise of
free-will;  through students'  decisions and actions---and
through the self evaluation of the natural consequences of
those decisions and actions.

     In  recent  years relatively fewer young adults  have
chosen to seek the conventional college education  because
college  professors have not elicited the respect of  such
young adults in word and deed.  Standards of human conduct
are best transmitted by living examples. Academic policies
are impotent  in the absence of incarnations of that which
the policies seek to encourage.

                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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