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     The  typical science educator has mastered many times
as  much  content  and skill as the  typical  student  can
possibly master even under the best of circumstances. Thus
honesty  demands  that realistic goals  be  selected which
students can achieve because  the goals are appropriate to
the  students'   developmental  stages.   It  is  hard  to
conceive how this can be done without  professors  knowing
students  through  authentic  meeting  or  without student
involvement  in making the value judgments  which lead  to
the relevant decisions and action.

     The traditional foci of science education do not have
inherent   value  apart  from  their  incarnation.     The
incarnation  of  science  fundamentals  depends  upon  the
initiative  taken by students who are granted the  freedom
to  choose  under  the  creative  guidance  of  attractive
scientists.   Real students are not automatons.   They can
not  be  programmed without respect  for  their  emotional
responses.    Real learning does not take place without  a
sense of joy, satisfaction, fulfillment, hope and meaning.

     For science teachers to take an authoritarian  stance
and seek to maintain full control of what students will be
expected  to  learn  leads to  the  estrangement  of  real
students and the stifling of creativity.  Science teachers
who play the parent role for students who are cast in  the
child  role  can  not  help students learn  to  behave  as
adults.   The students are likely to continue to feel like
impotent  children  who  will age and re-play  the  parent
roles  which  they watched  their  authoritarian  teachers
play.  Unless students are encouraged to behave as  adults
they  will not participate in decisions and actions  which
will  help  them  incarnate the relevant  fundamentals  of
science  in a way which will be helpful when dealing  with
new problems which will confront them in their future.

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