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%APPROPRIATE IDEALS AND LEADERS 840820
The creative potentials of individuals who might
otherwise cooperate in creative ventures---are
often undermined by inappropriate leaders and ideals.
For each human situation there are leaders and ideals
which are appropriate to the situation; and other
leaders who are inappropriate to the situation.
When inappropriate leaders and ideals are chosen, or
dominate, then human creative potentials are inhibited.
Then people and leaders are guided by disintegrative
ideals.
Cooperation is impossible without open and honest
communication. Thus, the inhibition of open and honest
communication inhibits creative cooperation. Any ideals
and leaders which lead to the inhibition of open and
honest communication---inhibit creative cooperation.
Ideals and leaders need to be assessed with this insight
in mind. Not all ideals promote personal and communal
integrity.
Cooperation is inhibited if members of a community
can not trust each other for lack of integrity. If
members of a "community" are on the defensive and
lack security---they are diverted away from
creative cooperation. Insecure people waste their time,
energy and money on tragic attempts to achieve
security through clever manipulative and/or coercive
techniques. They are not free to spend their time, energy
and money in cooperative ventures which create new levels
of community, through the integration of their diverse
potentials into a community which has integrity because
all its members are supported in their diverse efforts
to develop their own personal integrity.
Different situations call for different ideals---
and leaders embodying different ideals. Just
because a certain ideal and leader is worthy of
respect in one particular situation---is not reason for
granting that ideal and leader great respect in a
significantly different situation. Some situations call
for objective and technical skills. Other situations call
for personal ideals and skills. When what is called
for in one situation dominates in the other
situations tragic consequences ensue; e.g., the
crisis in science education created by the ideals and
leaders of pure research dominating the nature of
education programs---which should be person-centered,
rather than object-centered.
It will be inappropriate to permit scientists'
objective research ideals to dominate the assessment of
those ideals. That would not be bias-free assessment.
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