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%LIBERAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION 840129
The foundation of liberal education is a community of
professors who have learned how to be intellectually and
affectively interdependent in a balanced way from their
own graduate school professors. Professors who are
intellectually and/or affectively dependent in an
unbalanced way upon their graduate school mentors---
will pass on that unbalanced dependence to their students,
thus imprisoning their students as they themselves were
imprisoned by their graduate school mentors.
Unbalanced affective and/or intellectual dependence
is the natural consequence of a failure of graduate school
professors to affirm integrative values with personal
integrity themselves. Human dependency is a natural
condition and there are natural tendencies to move towards
greater and greater dependency in the absence of humane
values which promote integrity and balanced
interdependency. Liberal arts colleges that seek to be
true to their name have a responsibility to select
professors who have been liberally educated professors
who are qualified to implement a curriculum in a way which
will help students become liberally educated. The
process of developing such liberally educated professors
is thus an exceedingly slow one.
The traditional research Ph.D (which for practical
purposes is the only way to become accredited for college
and university teaching) is not a balanced preparation for
any kind of teaching. Requiring such a degree forces
future college and university teachers to become dependent
in an unbalanced way upon mentors who have specialized in
pure research to the exclusion of interest in and the
development of skills essential to helping students
overcome affective and intellectual blocks to learning.
Either the Ph.D degree must be broadened to be a more
balanced, or colleges and universities must stop requiring
their professors to have earned such an unbalanced degree.
The present practice is producing a generation of
specialists who are blind to its tragic consequences. The
fact that all the specialists agree with each other is no
proof that they are wise. Participants in collusions
agree with each other very sincerely.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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