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%MUTUAL EVALUATION 731015
In healthy human relationships there is reciprocity. If
communication is in only one diretion, there is neither
dialogue nor understanding. The seriousness of the mis-
understanding will depend upon the relative powers of
participants to engage in constructive and/or destructive
decisions and actions. If the primary word 'I-Thou' is
not spoken, then the primary word 'I-It' is spoken to
persons as a matter of habit, and destructive decisions
and actions are part of a throughtless pattern.
In colleges and universities, evaluations are most
often of students by professors, and in accord to
traditional grading practices. Dialogue is not
consiudered as an essential part of the process; and
reciprocity is rare. In some instances students copy some
of the grading practices of their professors, but with
greater flexibility and greater respect for indivdual
differences, than typifies professors' evaluations of
students. Even so, professors are often distressed by the
indaequacies of the procedures used by students to
evaluate professors. There remain too many blocks to
academic honesty, there is little dialogue and so little
mutual understanding; because there is little mutual
awareness. The ultimate concern tends to be the faithful
recording and play-back of information by students, and
this concern often stands in the way of authentic meeting.
So long as there is a union of education and
certification, the conflict of interest present therein
will perpetuate the alienation feed-back loop which
undermines effective education. This bureaucratic violence
will have the power to harm real students so long as
society threats with respect the certifications which
originate within the context of the conflict of interest.
If the rights of citizenship are denied to those whithout
such certification, all citizens will suffer greatly.
The way out includes the elimination of the conflict
of interest inherent in the union of education and
certification, and the eliminations of thoughtless respect
for certifications, and for thoughtless participants in
the educational experience.
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