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    %NEGATIVE TECHNICAL FEED-BACK CONFIRMING DOUBTS+790701
       %FEARS CONFIDENCE SELF FAILURE EXCOMMUNICATE+790701
                  %IGNORE WAY SCIENCE TEACH STUDENT 790701

     Science students often experience negative  technical
feed-back.    Their teachers  often confirm  their  doubts
about their ability to learn  science.   They  are  taught
that science is hard to learn,  and they learn that lesson
very  well---because  they are taught that it is  an  easy
lesson  to learn.   Many students who have had  difficulty
with   science---lack  confidence  in  themselves.   Their
teachers'  lack of confidence in them confirms their self-
appraisal and occasions behavior which further proves that
both  the  students  and the teachers were right in  their
appraisals.    The  strength  and  frequency  of  negative
technical feed-back originates in part in the non-personal
nature of technology.

     A  preoccupation  with techniques,   especially  with
objective techniques,  does  not promote an interest in or
skills  in  relating  personally  to  other  people.    An
objective   preoccupation  tends  to  block   dispositions
towards  positive  personal  feed-back,   and  leave  only
critical  negative  feed-back.   Technocrats  tend to seek
perfection,   but  humans are eternally imperfect  and  so
subject   to   constant  criticism.     The   technocrats'
perception is  of  the imperfections,  not of the positive
attributes.    Thus the technocrats feed-back  is  focused
upon  the imperfections.   Dwelling  upon  what  has  been
accomplished   does  not  in  any  objective  way  promote
focusing  of  attention upon what there is yet to do---and
so  technocrats do not not tend to  dwell  upon  students'
accomplishments.   Technocrats are by training disposed to
bring  attention  to  students'   failures---and  so  give
students negative technical feed-back which undermines the
students'   confidence,  enhances their doubts and  fears,
blocks  honest communication,  and makes it difficult  for
most students to learn science and technical skills.

     There  is no objective technique which can be used to
eliminate all negative technical feed-back.   It is futile
to use technology to  try  to eliminate the bad effects of
technology.    There are some dilemmas which do  not  have
technical  solutions.   The solution to  the  dilemmas  of
negative feed  back will likely be found in the efforts of
people who are not technically oriented or disposed.  From
their perspectives it  may  be possible to see clearly the
way to follow.
                                                                                                                               
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