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                             %STRUCTURE AND FREEDOM 731208

     When  structure is experienced as restrictive  it  is
not  likely  to  be  appreciated and  so  tend  to  reduce
motivation. When structure is experienced as  providing  a
fail-safe  context of stability and  opportunity,   it  is
likely  to  be  appreciated  and  tend  to  encourage  the
development of motivation.  Love, power,  and justice must
be  united  in a structure  which  has  integrity  if  the
structure   is  to  provide  freedom  to  choose  to  real
students.   If there is power, but no love or justice, the
structure  will  generate  bureaucratic  violence  as  its
primary fruit.   If there is love and power but no justice
some will temporarily fare to their satisfaction while the
poor suffer.   If there is power and justice but  no love,
real persons will cease to live.   What is  essential is a
structure  which  with integrity unites the three in human
incarnations.

     The  educational  structure has  focused  heavily  on
verbal ensymbolments of truth. Because love is not limited
to verbal channels of communication the educational system
has  often overlooked the essential roles which love plays
in the lives of real students.

     Many of the professors within institutions of  higher
education have found the use of power in the outside world
distasteful,   and  so  have  tended  to  avoid  conscious
participation   in   political  action  where   power   is
exercised. Because professors have not had much experience
with  the humane use of power outside academia,  they  are
not  qualified to help their students lay the  foundations
for the humane use of power.

     Academia  has  traditionally been structured so  that
the  power  to  make value judgments  and  participate  in
decisions  and  action  has  been  power  concentrated  in
administrators and faculty,  with relatively little  power
exercised by students.   The result that has followed as a
natural  consequence  is  that  real  students  have   not
perceived justice in action,  and leave colleges without a
genuine appreciation of justice in action.

     When  love,  power and justice are equal participants
in creating an  educational  structure  ---  then students
through  that structure find the freedom to see their  own
potentialities  and the freedom to choose to fulfill  them
with personal integrity.

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