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%CLASSIFICATION VS GUIDANCE 790926
Often a teacher responds to a student's failures
in a way which says to the student: (1) People have fixed
characteristics which can not be changed, (2) your fixed
characteristic is that you tend to fail, (3) there is
nothing that can be done to change your fixed
characteristics, (4) I will offer you no guidance to help
you be more successful, because you are doomed to fail.
Such a teacher's response may be characterized as one of
classification of the student. Some teachers pride
themselves on how quickly and accurately they can classify
students. They aspire to faster and more accurate
classification and work on developing the necessary
technologies.
The students' response to teachers who classify
them may be of many forms: (1) Despair, (2) anger, (3)
frustration, (4) rebellion, (5) disrespect, (6) challenge,
(7) misdirected vigorous activity, (8) violence in verbal,
political, or physical form. The student who accepts the
teacher's classification out of respect for the teacher is
doomed. The student who rejects the teacher's
classification is confronted with a series of double-binds
which are difficult to transcend. Few students have the
maturity and power to transcend such double-binds. Few
teachers are able to perceive such double-binds and
disrespect the students who disrespect their pattern of
classifying students. The disrespectful students are
failed by the disrespectful teachers, and the cause of
liberation is frustrated. These things take place on
liberal arts college campuses where the teachers are
ostensibly dedicated to the liberation of their students.
Such colleges do a good job of classifying students into
those who will
and will not be successful in graduate work or
business. They pride themselves on how well they can
classify applicants for admission, and how well they can
attract those applicants who are classified "likely to
succeed." They then sell their college on the basis of how
exclusive they are, rather than on the basis of how well
they can promote learning.
In the coming years there will be a buyer's market
as regards instructional services. Wise students and
parents will check to see before they buy, and try to see
if a college is classifying students, or helping students
learn from failures.
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