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%ENCOURAGEMENT 770728
Few of us have the courage to face our difficulties
without assistance, support, help, companionship, etc.
Those of us who can go it alone, are not fully human.
Real people need encouragement, or they cease to live real
lives.
The educational process ostensibly is designed to
help students grow in ways appropriately to their own
futures. If they are to be real students who learn to
live real and meaningful lives, they need to have
encouragement. Yet educational institutions tend to
emphasize rules, regulations, negative criticisms,
punishments, and other restrictions; rather than
encouragement. It is not surprising then that many
students lose courage and fail in the fail-punitive
environment.
An origin of the problem is in technocrats tendency
to focus upon criteria for judgment, rather than upon
human dialogue. When the criteria for judgment are more
highly valued than dialogue is valued---then sin in the
sense of estrangement is the natural consequence. Nature
passes judgment upon the survival value of the system of
values which undervalues dialogue, and overvalues
judgmental criteria. Technocrats tend to become isolated
and retain power only through technical fascism where
technocracy plays the role of nation and race in Hitler's
Germany. Technocrats pass judgment upon the
mental/emotional inclinations of non-technocrats and find
them defective. Such findings are not encouraging to the
real people who are the victims of the technocrats. This
encourages the technocrats to believe that their point of
view is universally true---there being no effective
competition for it.
Solutions to human problems which involve the
reduction of communication are pseudo-solutions. They
mask the problems without resolving them. They are like
paint over a thick layer of rust, or white wash on a
decaying corpse. Sticking one's head in the sands of time
hardly solves long-range problems. There is little to
give one courage in ignorance of other peoples'
perceptions, assumptions, feelings, values, attitudes,
desires, etc. Encouragement is not possible in the
absence of dedications to openness. Students of all ages
need encouragement.
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