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%INSECURE TEACHING CERTAINTY 791224
Emotionally immature people often take refuge in
compulsive certainty. They seek security in subcultures
which offer them protection against doubt, ambiguity,
vulnerability, and critical examination of fundamental
presuppositions. Because they have not enjoyed the
support of genuine human love, they seek certainty in
technical creations of men. They strive for technical
security. The world-wide arms race is an example of such
compulsive striving for security grounded in technical
creations which are worshipped by emotionally insecure
children of God.
The technically oriented people who motivate and
direct the arms race have been taught by insecure teachers
who have taken refuge in academic sub-cultures --- in an
effort to find security to compensate for their
emotionally impoverished childhoods. The job security
which is offered is comforting. Protection from the
criticism of people of diverse orientations is offered by
highly specialized departmental sub-cultures. Academics
rarely have to prove that they can listen with
understanding to people with widely divergent
perspectives. They rarely have to survive on the basis of
making themselves understood by people of quite different
orientations. Specialized departments and research
efforts offer a womb-like protection which gives a
feelings of security which is much desired.
Within the classroom professors have unbalanced power
which gives them a sense of security. With that power
they can protect themselves against cutting criticism by
students; grades make students think criticism over very
carefully before it is offered. By making legitimacy be
based upon technical sophistication --- professors
undercut the possibility of students effectively
challenging their power, and thus make themselves
invulnerable through the use of technology. They offer
their kind of elitist security to a select few who show
the least disposition to undermine its foundations. The
affirmation of such capable students augment the
certainty, security, and power of the professors who are
in power. Ambivalent students who doubt the worth and
meaning of their professors' system --- do not acquire the
traditional forms of power and security. Often they do
not receive alternative forms either, because they can not
recognize and accept them.
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