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%COMMITMENT TO STUDENTS 770425
Many teachers are more committed to their specialized
profession than they are committed to the personal welfare
of their students. The students who cannot succeed in
copying the teacher's professional patterns of behavior do
not fit into the teacher's patterns of concern. The
failing student is not of great concern to such a teacher
because the teacher's concern is not focused upon the
student's welfare, but upon the welfare of the profession
and his position within it. Unless the student is able to
advance the profession or the teacher's position within
it, the student can serve no useful purpose. Thus,
mutuality of concern between students and such teachers is
elitist in nature. Their mutual concerns tend to
perpetuate the narrow concerns of the specialized
profession---concern which undermines commitment to
students' personal welfare irrespective of any exclusive
commitment to the welfare of the specialized profession.
Colleges that seek the services of highly competent
specialized teachers are likely to victimize their
students with the temptation to join such teachers'
professional collusions---or face rejection. The colleges
which are ostensibly dedicated to liberal arts education
are especially likely to victimize students by false
representations of the services offered by specialized
teacher. Students seeking liberation from narrow
perspectives are tempted to adopt the narrow perspectives
of the highly specialized teachers who are valued for
their great technical competence---to the exclusion of
personal interest in students as whole persons.
Liberal arts colleges would do service to their
students by seeking educators whose primary commitment is
to students' welfare, rather than to their own
professional advancement or to the abstract advancement of
knowledge. The belief that the student's welfare will be
best served via an exclusive commitment to abstract
knowledge and its advancement---tends to promote self-
justification by specialists who do not personally know
what is means to be personally committed to students'
personal welfare. In a competitive market those colleges
will survive which best serve the students who seek
liberation from narrow specialized interests. Exclusively
technically oriented teachers will not promote such
service.
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