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     Blinders  put on a horse help it go in the way willed
by its driver.  The blinders restrict the awareness of the
horse so that it is not diverted from the proper way.  The
blinders  help  the  horse  by  eliminating  some  of  the
temptations to turn aside from the intended path.

     The  tracks on which trains run assure that the train
will follow the desired path,  they restrict the motion of
the train.

     The maintenance of restrictions of the sort indicated
above insures the continuation of the desired process. The
removal  of  the restrictions would be  an  invitation  to
going astray.

     For   many   years   colleges  have   operated   with
restrictions designed to insure that its students will not
go astray; almost as if students were horses or trains. By
restricting students'   choices through academic policies,
colleges  have  sought to insure that the  students  would
follow  good  paths of conduct.   Such  a   overlooks  the
cessation of the restrictions upon graduation.

     No institution can exist without structure,  and  all
structures  impose restrictions upon those who participate
within them.  Only within structure is there real freedom.
Thus,  it is inevitable that colleges impose  restrictions
upon  its  students by virtue of the essential  structures
which  define the character of the college.   It does  not
follow,   however,  that the character of the college must
include  efforts to prevent student failure by the use  of
restrictive techniques without a fail-safe context.

     So  long as colleges are dominated  by  intellectuals
who  seek to structure everything,  including persons,  so
long will there be a tendency  for restrictive  techniques
to be used to insure that there be no acknowledge learning
through failure.  So long as the good is known, it will be
difficult  to live in a fail-safe context in which all may
learn  through  failures  which point  to  the  nature  of
reality,   rather than to the particular character of  the
sub-culture in which the failure occurred.  Colleges which
seek  to  liberate students will fail if  they  desire  to
restrict  their students'  freedom to make mistakes,   and
experience  the  natural  consequences without  having  to
suffer contrived institutional violence as well.

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