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                                  %POLITICAL ACTION 731109

     Any action  which  directs the use  of  the  public's
scarce resources is political action.  The public's scarce
resources   include  among  other  things:    tax   money,
attention,   time,   land  space,  energy resources,  non-
polluted environments,   relevant  information,   analytic
skills,   emotional  security,  good students,  attractive
scientists and peacemakers.  Many individuals are not free
to see real political actions.  Some enter into collusions
to  the  effect  that real political actions do not exist,
and  that  certain  other impotent actions  are  political
actions.   The  former  often  involve  the decisions  and
action of people who  wish not to be publicly   associated
with overt  political action.   The latter  are  often the
efforts of the politically uneducated attempting to engage
in  overt  political  action.   The politically uneducated
remain so through the benign neglect of those who  already
have  political  power.  When the  politically  uneducated
become  sensitized  to the absurdities of the  status  quo
(without  at  the  same  time  learning how to  engage  in
effective  political  action)  the result is  frustration,
which,   if great enough,  can lead to destructive actions
which are directed symbolically at the perceived  foci  of
the absurdities; as in the USA in the late 1960's.

     Science  education  has tended to  be  divorced  from
political action.   The technical problems which are posed
at the ends of chapters of text books have too rarely been
real  human problems.  Too rarely have students been asked
to  structure  their  own  real  problems  for  scientific
analysis.  It has too often been taboo to focus scientific
analysis upon the real problems of the society which arise
from  the undemocratic concentration of power.   When  the
financial support of educational institutions depends upon
the  good  will of such concentrations of  power,   it  is
difficult  for the   educational  institutions  to  permit
students to challenge the concentrations of power.  It may
take an affirmative  action  program  on  the part of such
concentrations  of power to encourage astute analysis  and
effective political action on the  part of students within
educational institutions.

     Science education divorced from political action---is
biased political action which directs the scarce resources
of analytic skills and attractive scientists away from the
real  problems  of  society  and  towards  non-threatening
academic puzzles and diversionary research.

                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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