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 %PERSONAL TEACHER TRAINING SCIENCE LISTEN DIALOGUE+790819
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             %BLOCK SIN COLLEGE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE 790819

     Rarely   does  teacher  training  for   college   and
university  science  professors  deal  with the  practical
problems which sin (the condition of alienation) occasions
in science education.  Neither the word "sin" is used, nor
is  the  condition which the word points to---a  focus  of
attention  in  training  college  and  university  science
teachers.    The  practical problems of the alienation  of
scientists---are  not  the  focus  of  attention  in   the
programs which prepare college,  university,  and graduate
science professors.  As a result the college,  university,
and graduate  science teachers are relatively unaware  of,
indifferent   to,   and  un-responsive  to  the  practical
problems which sin poses in their daily professional work.

     The importance of personal considerations in teaching
and teacher training is independent of people's failure to
deal wisely  with  them.  Failure to wisely teach teachers
how  to deal with the personal aspects of  teaching---does
not make the personal aspects of teaching unimportant,  no
matter whose failure it may be.   Thus, scientists who are
critical of the efforts  of  Teacher Education Departments
in  this matter---are not  through their  criticism  being
helpful.  To be helpful scientists must do a better job of
dealing  with  the personal aspects of teaching---than  do
Teacher Education  Departments.  Their wise judgment  will
then be found in their doing a better job,  rather than in
their  verbal  criticisms.    Humane  teaching  is  humane
profession, a  personal profession; and professor training
which does not prepare professors  to deal personally with
students is irresponsible training.  To accept the victims
of   such   unbalanced  training  as   qualified   college
professors is irresponsible.

     Technical  specialists  who are  personally  immature
cannot  be  humane teachers.   Technical sophistication is
not   the   essence,    the   necessary   and   sufficient
qualification,    for  humane  teaching.    A    necessary
qualification is  a balance between technical interest and
competence  on the one  hand,  and personal  interest  and
maturity on the other.   To achieve the necessary  balance
personal  sacrifices must be made relative to "excellence"
which  might  be achieved  through full specialization  in
just technical or just personal concerns.    Thus striving
for   just   "excellence"    rather   than   balance    is
irresponsible.
                                                                                                                               
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