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     To  be effective any individual or organization needs
to  assess  abilities,   limitation,   needs,   and.system
interactions  so as to be able to set priorities.   Anyone
who tries to do everything will accomplish little.  It  is
essential  to  deal with finitude realistically;  not  all
values may be affirmed.  To be helpful each individual and
group  must make the contributions which are judged to  be
in  keeping  with  abilities,  limitations,   needs,   and
system  interactions.   Some contributions  must  be  made
before others can be helpful.  Thus it is foolish to waste
time and resources in efforts which are not timely.  First
things must be done first.

     Higher  education rarely focuses students'  attention
on the art  of setting priorities in a  helpful way.   The
academic "community" is not accustomed to dealing honestly
with  finitude.    All knowledge is  judged  as  valuable.
Experts are disinclined to question the value judgments of
other experts the "favor"  be returned.  Some even join in
a  collusion  to the effect that academic work  transcends
value judgments.  The logic is somewhat as follows:

     Academic  work is work in the search of truth.    All
truth   is  good.    Truth  is  not  ascertained   through
democratic votes.  Truth is ascertained through procedures
appropriate  to the compartment in which the bit of  truth
is to be stored when it is ensymboled.  Those who are  not
experts  in  those  procedures  can  not  understand   the
importance of the ensymbolment  process.  Thus the process
of  setting  priorities is one which must be left  to  the
certified  technocrats ---  these are aspects of the state
of  consciousness  which excludes real  persons  from  the
implicit value judgments of the academic community.

     To  set priorities wisely requires a systems analysis
approach  to  a whole situation.  Members of the  academic
"community"   are  not accustomed to considering  a  whole
situation,    especially  if  it  involves   their   whole
institution  and  its  relationships within the  whole  of
society.  Thus members of the academic "community" find it
difficult  to  wisely set priorities in collective efforts
to  solve real  problems.   It is far easier to study some
limited aspect of  the total situation,  an  aspect  which
looks  interesting  and  likely to  yield  to  traditional
methods of analysis and ensymbolment.   Since academicians
are  not accustomed to making real decisions,  more  study
appears to be helpful at all times.

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