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     Many  students  are trying to please their  teachers.
They would like to know what they must do to please  their
teachers.    Some of their teachers wisely refuse to  play
their students'  game of dependency and do not tell  their
students  what must be done to please them.   The teachers
want  their students to develop  self-motivation,   rather
than  dependency.   Some of their students may resent  the
teachers'   refusal  to play the game  of  dependency  and
conformal affirmation.  They may take out their resentment
and  frustration in low evaluations of the wise  teachers,
and  reward  the teachers who willingly play the  game  of
dependency.    Such students help administrators keep  the
less  creative  teachers who do not give administrators  a
hard  time.    Thus students and  administrators  conspire
thoughtlessly   to  undermine  the  creative  process   of
education.   They work together to reward teachers who use
little imagination to fulfill formal expectations.

     Some  teachers  are trying to please their  students.
Such   teachers   tend   to   confirm   their    students'
provincialisms, biases, collusions, taboos, and ignorance.
Such  teachers  are fearful and do not dare  to  challenge
their  students in any fundamental way which  might  cause
their students to turn upon them in anger or  frustration.
Such  teachers are likely to focus upon the development of
technologies as if they were value neutral---for doing  so
will  avoid  the  challenges  involved  in  dealing   with
provincialism, biases, collusions, taboos, ignorance,  and
double  blinds.    They  smother  their  students  in  the
security which comes from ignoring conflict and pretending
it is not real.  In appreciation the students reward their
protective teachers with words of praise and honor.   Such
students are not likely to wake up,  and so are likely  to
be appreciative for the rest of their lives.    Relatively
few  of  those  who do wake up are likely to do  so  in  a
creative  way  which will move to reform  the  educational
context which put them to sleep.  Many of those who do not
wake  up  cycle  back  into the  educational  context  and
accentuate those aspects of it which puts them to sleep.

     Liberal  arts college in which these  processes occur
---   in very profound ways let their students down.  They
fail  to  be  faithful to their promise of  liberation  to
their students.

                                                                                                                               
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