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%DISPELLING STUDENTS' FEAR OF IGNORANCE 840227
The vocation of the helpful teacher is to help dispel
students' fear of ignorance by promoting fearless
learning.
The trainer who instills fear in ignorant students --
- as a presumed means to make them learn --- is not a
helpful teacher. The student who fears to be
vulnerable by revealing ignorance --- blocks the
elimination of that ignorance because of that fear of
vulnerability. The trainer who instills fear of
vulnerability blocks helpful learning. Helpful education
occurs only in proportion to how fully students feel free
to showing their ignorance in sharing their perceptions
and insights. Without open and honest dialogue education
is impossible, when students are fearful of being educed
in ways which will make them vulnerable. In a
coercive atmosphere students are not meaningfully
educed, and so are not meaningfully educated.
The vocation of the helpful educator is as much to
create a climate which is free of fear, as to
create information-rich environments. Enriching the
information density of a student's environment can be
intimidating and cause the student to be afraid to
show inadequacies. Broadcasting sophisticated information
can be a trainer's way of asserting dominance over
students --- who are regarded as inferior because of
their ignorance. Such a trainer may respect only those
few students who survive in spite of a climate which
makes them fear their vulnerability due to their
ignorance. Thus a new generation of dominant
students "mature" to become the next generation of
dominant trainers of students. Their sincere efforts
then promote the continuation of the fear of ignorance
and the vulnerability which fear occasions within the
climate which they perpetuate.
The vocation of helpful educators is to break this
vicious cycle of fear. The cycle is not broken by
superior information, knowledge, or sophisticated
technologies and communication systems. There is no
technology which will serve as the means for breaking the
cycle of ignorance and fear of the vulnerability ---
which such ignorance occasions. Only non-technical ways
will break that cycle of fear.
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