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%ELITIST TEACHING PROFESSIONS 790912
Elitist teachers tend to teach at elite institutions
which are highly respected. There has been a tendency for
the most elite teachers of such elite institutions to be
the most respected teachers among the faculty---if not
among the students. Since it is the faculty and former
faculty members, called administrators, who pass out the
rewards at elite institutions, it is the most elite
teachers who prosper with financial rewards, respect,
tenure, etc. Being elitist definitely pays well at such
institutions.
The less elite institutions have tended to respect
the elite institutions, and have tended to copy the
instructional patterns of the elite teachers. They aspire
to the respect granted to the most elite institutions and
teachers. Thus they try to copy the teaching patterns and
teaching standards of the elite schools. This is usually
done with little or not thought to the developmental
stages and learning readiness of the students who should
be served.
What is the ultimate purpose of elite teachers? It
can not be to maximized the number of students that learn
the material of the amount of learning that the students
enjoy. Such a purpose would tragically undermine the
nature of the elite profession---it would cease to be an
elite profession. Then where would be the respect,
adulation, and reward which the elite teacher has grown
accustomed to? No, the elite teacher can not be dedicated
to effective instruction. That would be unthinkable. So
it is not thought about, not even to the extent of
consciously rejecting the possibility of teaching
effectively.
What then is the ultimate purpose of elite teachers?
Clearly it must be to maintain the elite nature of their
profession which rewards them with respect, pay, and
tenure. The students who are permitted to enter the
profession must be students who are dedicated to
maintaining the elite nature of the profession---so that
in retirement the younger generation will continue to
bestow honor and respect upon the elite teacher of
previous years. Thus the elite teacher go through motions
of teaching which are really designed to select the right
students for the honor of joining the elite profession. It
is like an elite club to which only the right wealthy men
are granted entrance. Of course such practices are
justified in terms of maintaining high standards, but of
course not of teaching effectiveness.
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