This-essay is a7907131.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 ========================================================== %ANXIETY MOTIVATED LEARNING TECHNOCRATIC+790713 %REWARD PUNISH CONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE+790713 %AFFIRM ENJOYMENT EASY FAIL CHILD 790713 Children learn easily and without anxiety until they become the victims of cultures that conditionally reward and punish. Infants are programmed to learn and enjoy learning, it is instinctive behavior which works best in the absence of external efforts to motivate the behavior. Children that grow up at home learn the language of the home, whatever that language may be---King's English, butchered English, French, Chinese, violence, ridicule, affection, aloofness, scorn, etc. They learn the language of behavior manipulation---if the home is full of behavior manipulation. If they learn the language of behavior manipulation---they stop learning in other ways. They become anxious about conditional rewards and punishments---especially if they have no one who unconditionally accepts them and assures them unconditional dialogue. The fear of failure inhibits humane learning and promotes technocratic learning. Anxiety promotes the growth of technocracy, which heightens anxiety, in a viscous feed-back loop which violate people and causes them to become violent. Curiosity originates within a person. People cannot be manipulated into being curious. Rewards and punishments will not promote curiosity. The best that can be done is to leave curiosity free to motivate and direct the development of the infant, child, adolescent, and adult. In this regard systematic technocratic plans are not an improvement over inherited instincts of curiosity, awe, wonder, puzzlement, etc. Technocrats violate people in their efforts to prove that technocratic systems are better than nature's way. Technocratic efforts to prove that techniques are useful presume that the human situation is fundamentally a problematic one in a technical sense. Efforts to motivate learning by rewards and punishments are technocratic substitutes for the curiosity which was killed by rewards and punishments. Systems of rewards and punishments help prevent the more creative children from being curious about and coming to mutual awareness and understanding about technocratic collusions. Such systems help direct creativity into technocratic efforts, rather than permit undisciplined curiosity and insight. Creativity becomes a deadly serious business which is very profitable and very resource consumptive. Few enjoy it. (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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