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     Technocrats  tend  to  be manipulators  who  seek  to
achieve goals through the use of various techniques.  They
tend  to perceive themselves as being responsible for  the
achievement of designated goals.   As educators they  tend
to  view  themselves  as responsible for  their  students'
education---and  seek  to manipulate their  students  into
success.    Technocrats  tend  to relate  to  students  in
manipulative ways which lack mutuality.  They tend to cast
themselves  in the role of initiator and their students in
passive  roles of acceptance of their initiatives.   As  a
result  the  technocratic educator  tends  towards  making
value  judgments and methodological choices on  behalf  of
their  students.   Such paternalism is for the  student  a
natural extension of the paternalism of childhood---and is
usually  not recognized as perverse by the student or  the
educator.  Yet, the pattern is not educive; rather,  it is
coercive without love, power, or justice for students.

     Technocratic   paternalism  robs  students  of  their
responsibility  to  mature in their ability to make  value
judgments  and  to select appropriate ways to realize  the
values   which   they   choose.     Through   technocratic
paternalism  students  are encouraged to focus  upon  I-It
relationships  to the exclusion of  I-Thou  relationships;
they  are encouraged to develop in unbalanced ways.   In a
technocratic  paternalistic  educational  system  students
find  they have no effective grievance procedure by  which
to  appeal  the  absurd  manipulations  of  their  sincere
educators.  Their response is thus often an insane pattern
of  self-defeating  emotionally  defensive  moves  through
which they seek to protect their integrity.   Their insane
context elicits from them insane coping mechanisms,  which
tend to compound the insanity of their context.   They may
seek  to assume the responsibility for getting  others  to
behave  properly  according  to some  definition  of  what
constitutes  proper behavior in their insane context.   As
they assume the responsibility for success on the part  of
others  they become "born again"  technocrats  responsible
for  the maintenance of their technocratic  society.    As
manipulators  they  cease to be participants  in  intimate
relationships  characterized by true openness,  mutuality,
healthy vulnerability, and satisfying meaning.

                                                                                                                               
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