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%LIBERAL EDUCATION AS TRANSCENDENCE 801123
The essence of liberal education is the facilitation
of the transcendence of collusions, taboos, fears, and
alienation---which inhibit dialogue, understanding,
insights, creativity, initiatives, learning, and growth.
For this reason, liberal education teachers find
themselves in conflict with defenders of the collusions
and taboos which protect vested interests and conventional
life styles. Technical sophistication is the essence of
the refinement of conventional education which protects
collusions, taboos, and the fears and alienation which are
essential to their maintenance. Teachers in liberal
education help their students examine the conventional
thoughtless assumptions which serve as the foundations for
conventional collusions and taboos. This will necessitate
the revelation of inconsistencies between articulated and
practiced values; i.e., injustices.
Collusions and taboos are often defended by denying
due process consideration to creative students and
teachers who have the courage to challenge them and ask
for unbiased examinations of the alienative values and the
implications of their defense. Such revolutionaries ask
for unbiased evidence of the value of conventionality.
Such a request is a violation of the taboos and collusions
It is a violation of a collusion or taboo to ask for
evidence in defense of the collusion or taboo; for it is
their essence to be beyond question and the need for
defense. Anybody who suspects that they are in need of
defense has already violated their essence, and should be
punished in order to protect the conventions.
Defense of collusions and taboos tends to be impli-
cit, for an explicit defense would involve an admission of
the need for defense---an admission which is taboo.
Implicit defenses of collusions and taboos tend to focus
upon the successes occasioned within the context of the
collusions and taboos, and affirmed by participants of
those collusions. The focus is upon the successes, with
care taken to avoid awareness of the alienation,
dishonesty, and injustices which are implicit in those
successes. It is the essence of liberal education to
promote a charitable awareness of such alienation,
dishonesty, and injustices---in order to set at liberty
the participation victims of the collusions.
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