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%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.
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