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This-essay is a7902081.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %AFFIRMED VALUES' TIME 790208 We affirm values by how we spend our time. Since we are finite we have finite time. Our time is our basic limited resource. How we prioritize our use of our time reveals the values which we affirm and make real. Spending time in the service of a value is what makes it a value to us. Failing to spend time in the service of a value is what makes it cease to be a value to us. By our example of how we spend our limited time we affirm values to others. Such temporal affirmations are more powerful than are verbal affirmations. Our actions speak louder than our words. Our words are cheap. Our actions cost us our time. Teachers affirm values by how they spend their personal time, lecture time, and out-of-lecture time. Students attend to how teachers spend their limited time. From personal observation we learn the values of teachers. Teachers who spend time doing esoteric research rather than in dialogue with students thereby affirm to their students that they are not important, and that esoteric research is important. The students are likely to internalize that affirmation, and have a low estimation of themselves and a high estimation of esoteric research--- even if it dehumanizes worthless people who used to be worthless students. The teachers' affirmations may lead to a logically consistent set of values which meet the teachers' criteria of integrity through logical consistency; doing violence to worthless people while not calling into question the value of esoteric research. Students seek to become significant by association with esoteric research which is significant---by associating with teachers who do esoteric research which they affirmed as significant. Through such association students who have learned that they are not worth anything---come to see themselves as worth something by association with non- personal research. Spending one's personal time in non-personal research depersonalizes the self. But, if the non-personal research is perceived to be of ultimate worth, then it is important to spend as much time as possible engaged in that which is of ultimate worth. Thus it is important to sacrifice one's personal time to non-personal values values. They receive the ultimate sacrifice of the personal self. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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