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%ACADEMIC STUDENT REVOLUTION 840209
It is time for thoughtful students to profoundly
challenge the technocratic values which have come to
dominate the graduate schools which prepare the college
and university professors who teach the future teachers of
all students in the nation.
Graduate schools are dominated by researchers
preoccupied with instrumental values which are essential
to completion of the research which is required for the
Ph.D degrees. The teaching of those instrumental values
as worthy of ultimate concern is the central reality of
graduate school programs. The training rituals of
graduate programs are means by which professors profess
their belief and faith in their technocratic values.
Technocrats focus upon techniques without regard for
what the use of those techniques does to personal and
communal integrity. Their excuse for their failure to
call attention to human consequences is that they believe
that they should not affirm one set of values as better
than another set of values. By failing to call attention
to the human consequences of inappropriate affirmations of
instrumental values --- they affirm instrumental values to
be worthy of ultimate concern in spite of the fact that
such ultimate concern for instrumental values
undermines personal and communal integrity, and so
undermines the possibility of meaningful human survival.
If scientists are to avoid teaching their students
that scientists' instrumental values are the highest
possible values --- the scientists must teach their
students how to evaluate instrumental values in
terms of integrative values which are essential to
personal and communal integrity. The teaching of
science can not be a value-neutral activity --- because it
is an activity by which scientists affirm how they
believe students should spend the most creative years of
their finite lives.
For scientists to minimize the bias which they pass
on to their students they must help their students
evaluate scientific techniques in terms of integrative
values upon which diverse people can agree.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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