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%ACADEMIC FOCUS EXISTENTIAL+790717
%EXPERIENCE VERBAL WRITING 790717
The academic focus tends to be upon verbal and
quantitative communications, rather than upon the
existential experience of the participants in the academic
program. The verbal and quantitative communications which
are the focus of the academic world do not focus upon the
existential experience of the participants, but upon the
verbal and mathematical communications of others
discussing the verbal and mathematical communications of
yet others---most likely of long ago. Intellectuals often
prefer to talk about what others have talked about---
because of affirmations of the importance of the previous
talk. Very rarely are the existential experiences of
persons in the academy affirmed as important, and so there
is little recognition expected in discussing the
existential experiences of unknown people.
The academic world is not programmed for action, but
for perfecting knowledge and ways of drawing conclusions.
The academic world is not designed to promote creativity
in the secular world of real lives. It is designed to
encourage the repeated digestion of multiply digested
ideas.
Higher education would be more vital were it more
concerned with relating existential experiences to each
other and to the future. The existential experiences of
the participants would be important in the program which
was balanced. The program would encourage honesty by
providing a safe place for honesty, rather than for
competition for limited affective affirmations from
professors who have little affection to offer. The
personal experiences of the participants can not be focal
in higher education so long as the participants can not
fail safe. Honesty is impossible so long as the
professors are participants in the punishment of those who
fail. For this reason personal honesty about existential
experiences is rare in elitist schools which are highly
competitive, and stand ready to flunk out students who do
not conform to the required pace of learning. With
honesty inhibited such elitist schools can not
successfully focus upon the participants' existential
experiences, and so they play games in which the focus in
upon other people's experiences and upon discussions of
other people's experiences.
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