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                %SCIENTISTS' PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING 791220

     Personal  understanding is rooted in self  perception
and self understanding.   Because of their  hyper-analytic
and  hyper-objective  training many  scientists  encounter
difficulties  in  self perception and self  understanding.
They  seek  to be logical,  consistent,  systematic,   and
unbiased   as  they  attempt  to  achieve  objective  self
perception and self understanding.  Self can not logically
be both subject and object at the same time, and to a high
degree.  Objectivity and subjectivity can not be perfected
and  realized simultaneously with regard to any one  focus
of attention.

     The more personal the focus of attention --- the more
meaningless it is to attempt to understand on the basis of
objectivity  and logical analysis;  the more so also  when
the focus pertains to self, rather then to  less  intimate
others.   Scientists tend to reach for familiar  paradigms
when  trying to gain personal understanding of  themselves
and  their relationships with other people.  The  dominant
paradigms  of scientists  involve  objectivity and logical
analysis  as  essential  features,  and so the  tools  the
scientists   choose   tend  not  to  be   appropriate   to
understanding  the personal situations in which they  find
themselves.

     Research   scientists  specialize  in  objective  and
analytic paradigms.   Graduate schools in which scientists
get  their training are dominated by research  scientists,
with effective teaching  being  a secondary  consideration
when  it comes to retention,  promotion,  tenure,  and pay
increases.  Nobel Prizes are not handed out for excellence
in science teaching,  but for outstanding contributions to
pure research.   The result is that science teachers focus
their  attention  on  objective/analytic paradigms most of
their time,  and approach their students with the research
paradigms still operating in their central processors. The
concepts  which  are dominant in pure  research  are  like
subroutines  of a computer program ---  which continue  to
reside  in  the  central processor and get in the  way  of
relating to students as subjects,   rather than as objects
to be analyzed, controlled, and modified according to some
grand system.  Science teachers' personal understanding of
students is often impersonal and so is often misleading in
tragic ways.

                                                                                                                               
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