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                       %OBJECTIVITY AND SENSITIVITY 731104

     For the  natural  scientist the  normative  state  of
consciousness    is   one  which   is   characterized   by
objectivity.   This  involves a detached approach  to  the
system  one  analyzes.    Natural scientists as scientists
analyze isolated systems, and it is valuable to be able to
be  in  full  control of any slight variations  from  full
isolation of a system.   In a controlled experiment  there
is  a  variation  in  only  one,   or  at  most  very few,
variables;  otherwise  the  system  under  observation  is
hopefully  an  isolated system.  The scientist maintains a
personally detached approach toward such systems in  order
to be objective.

     The  natural scientist who seeks to be an educator is
in danger of remaining imprisoned in the  objective  state
of  consciousness which is valuable to him in his research
activities.     Since   operating   in   that   state   of
consciousness  has  proven so helpful in understanding and
manipulating the physical systems which are  the  dominant
focus  of  his  professional  attention  ---   there  is a
tendency  to   operate   in   the   objective   state   of
consciousness  in  trying  to  understand  and  manipulate
students.  Thus it is that statistical studies are made of
the effectiveness of different manipulative procedures ---
when   applied  to  two  groups  of  students---who   were
presumably initially identical systems.

     This  procedure is not likely to be the most  helpful
one,   because it does not respect the difference  between
persons and things.  The scientist who relates to students
while he is in  the objective state of consciousness---can
not  relate  to them as real  persons with an awareness of
personal their interdependence.  I-Thou is not spoken with
the whole being.  To  become involved in authentic meeting
and dialogue between self and others --- is to become part
of the system, and thus to depart from the objective state
of consciousness.   The  scientist   can   maintain   full
objectivity only  by maintaining  his detached approach to
students---and by seeking  only technocrats'  solutions to
the  educational  problems and dilemmas which he  has  the
freedom  to see.  To maintain  this comfortable  state  of
estrangement---it  is necessary to join with others  in  a
collusion  to have it appear that one is being helpful  to
students.

     Truly helpful science education will become  possible
only  when students and instructors are free to enter into
dialogue as real persons;  touching each other  profoundly
in authentic meetings.
                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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