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%BLOCKAGES TO UNDERSTANDING 791220
Intellectuals often tend to look upon understanding
as a technical development, without personal aspects.
Rarely is thought given to the emotional, affective,
psychic, spiritual, physical, social, political, and
linguistic factors which may be blocking dialogue and
understanding. It is not enough to present for
consideration the technical components which may be
related to each other --- to contribute to understanding.
There may be hidden motives for avoiding the potential
understanding; then understanding will be uninhibited
until those motives are recognized and dealt with, or in
some other way robbed of their power to block dialogue and
understanding. Instruction is the process of helping
students deal with blockages to understanding by: (1)
Removing blockages, (2) Going around or over the
blockages, (3) Transcending the language, context,
approaches, etc. which occasion the blockages, (4) Other
ways.
Understanding is not merely a technical matter, it is
also a personal matter. The development of meaningful
understanding is the process of developing technical and
personal integrity. Any motivation which promotes
secrecy, dishonesty, fear, withdrawal, and the like will
tend to inhibit the development of technical and personal
integrity. Thus educators need to be sensitive to all
kinds of factors, circumstances, contexts, motivations,
and the like which may block dialogue and understanding;
and take steps to liberate students from such blockages.
Many traditions of educational institutions tend to
create blockages to dialogue and learning --- without in a
compensating way of eliminating other blockages. Such
traditions were not created with sensitivity to the ways
in which dialogue and understanding are inhibited, nor
with sensitivity to the non-technical components of
learning. Teachers who are really interested in helping
students become persons of integrity will examine all
educational traditions to see them in the light of how
they affect open and honest dialogue and tragic blockages.
Traditions should stand only if they (on the whole)
contribute to human wholeness and integrity. We need to
look for factors which tend to block our perception and
understanding of inhumane traditions. Students need to be
free to be in dialogue which reveals those factors and
promotes personal understanding of them.
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