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%GUIDANCE VS FORCED LABOR 821204
Many teachers assume that students who seek guidance
to maximize the fruits of the labors are students who are
seeking to minimize their labors. Such teachers take
their job to be to maximize the labors of the
students without regard for maximization of the fruits
of those labors. They feel that without their
prodding, the students will seek to avoid work; e.g.,
by seeking guidance to minimize how much work is involved
in getting assignments done. The teachers assume
that the goal of the students is not learning, but
just getting assignments done. Since only finite
assignments may be made, the teachers believe that to
maximize learning they must maximize the work required to
get the assignments done. This entails minimizing the
amount of guidance given to students. Thus many teachers
have a perception of their students' motivations and of
their roles as teachers---which guides them as teachers
to minimize the guidance which they are willing to
offer students who come to them for guidance.
Clearly the learning of students might be increased
by guidance from teachers which would help students know
how best to spend their finite amount of time and energy
to maximize their learning. Not all ways of spending time
and energy are likely to be equally fruitful. The
teachers know better than students which are the ways
which are most likely to be fruitful, and with the proper
attitude towards their students the teachers might help
their students learn more than the students will learn if
they are merely commanded to spend as much time as
possible on assignments---without guidance.
Students who go to professors in search of guidance
and help do not understand the nature of graduate school.
They do not understand that graduate school is a contest
between professors whose purpose it is to demonstrate that
the students are not worthy of an advanced degree, and the
students whose purpose it is to show that they are worthy.
The professors are the referees in this contest, and some
students are misguided in thinking that the professors are
on the same side as the students. Some of the professors
are also confused about their role in the contest, but the
majority of professors generally succeed in keeping
professors on a team fighting to defeat the graduate
students.
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