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Some educators are motivated by an intellectual love
of students. They have made an intelligent choice to seek
to serve students in rational ways. By systematic
procedures they determine what will be best for students
and devise programs of educational curricula which will
educate the students properly. Intellectual love tends
towards legalistic moralism and emotional excommunication.
Out of a love of intelligence, only a few students are
respected and trained to be excellent intellectuals. An
intellectual love of students occasions excellence in
logical, analytic, quantitative and rational processes ---
for those who are willing to sell their souls to serve
such excellence. Those who love students only
intellectually tend to excommunicate those students who
are unwilling to sell their souls to serve objective
techniques.
Some educators are motivated by an affective love of
students. They do not fear emotional involvement and have
no compulsive need to maintain full control of their
emotional involvement to assure that it conforms to
preconceived notions of what is good and what is evil.
They are free to take the risk of trusting their students
and entering into an un-programmed dialogue in which
participants risk their selves and others --- to the
creative processes of Love. The fruits of such dialogue
are not likely to be exactly as anybody planned.
Preconceived goals are not likely to be achieved according
to plan. Values of participants are as likely to be
changed/transformed --- as they are to be fulfilled. In
true dialogue the participants do not have conformity as
an ultimate concern. Each may educe the other without fear
of seduction, for through love they are free of the fear
of emotional punishment, guilt, and shame. True dialogues
take place in an emotional fail-safe context. Through
true dialogue participants decide what is true as much as
they discover what is true. They realize their visions by
giving themselves to dialogues which transcend exclusively
intellectual and the exclusively affective ways of coping.
Such dialogues threaten their present identity only to the
extent that they seek to maintain a rigid identity. It
does not threaten those who realize the power of Love.
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