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%UNDERSTANDING CONFUSED MISUNDERSTANDING 800721
The helpful teacher understands student's confused
misunderstanding. The not-so-helpful teacher passes
judgments upon students who are the victims of confused
misunderstandings---even when the confused misunder-
standings are highly logical and carefully thought out on
the basis of unconventional assumptions. The not-so-
helpful teacher does not seek to understand the
misunderstandings of students with learning difficulties,
does not seek to discover the unconventional assumptions
upon which some misunderstandings are founded. The sources
of confusion can be very logical. Confused thought can be
highly structured in accord to well defined rules of
analysis. The assumptions which serve as the foundations
for confused thought may be just as sensible as
conventional assumptions, but be incongruous with
conventional assumptions---confusion originating in trying
to work them into a theory thoughtlessly without
recognition of their incongruity.
The helpful teacher seeks to discover the details of
students' confused understanding---eliciting from them
just how they are thinking in order that the teacher may
understand their confusion. The focus of the teacher is
not so much the conventional thought processes, as the
unconventional though processes of the student. By
becoming familiar with the unconventional thought
processes of the students the teacher becomes able to help
the students examine their unconventional assumptions and
unconventional thought processes in comparison to the
conventional ones---and decide whether or not to become
conventional in their assumptions and thought processes.
In some instances the decisions to become or not become
conventional may in fact be value decisions, not decisions
regarding the nature of objective reality.
To pass judgment upon confused students and so to
excommunicate them cuts the teacher off from any hope of
helping such students. Such behavior on the part of a
teacher clearly indicates a lack of concern for the
welfare of the students, and a preoccupation with
conventional assumptions and thought patterns.
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