This-essay is a8408251.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %LEARNING HOW TO DECIDE WISELY 840825 Part of what students should learn in school is how to go about making decisions wisely. For this to happen students must be free to make and act on decisions in a meaningful way, and to assess the wisdom of decisions and actions taken. Students need a supportive communal context in which to assess their integrative efforts. Coercive requirements may inhibit students' efforts to learn how to decide and act wisely. When one is not free to make and act upon decisions in keeping with one's own interests, desires, dreams and visions---one can not learn how to decide "by doing". Even when there are no formal requirements---there may be coercive expectations which limit students' freedom to learn how to wisely make and act on decisions. Social pressures may force a student into patterns of living which are not suitable to the student's unique potentials. Opportunities may be biased in favor of inappropriate expectations. In the face of such informal pressures it is often difficult for a student to wisely make, act upon and evaluate decisions. An academic setting which does not take free will seriously will inhibit a students' freedom to learn how to decide and act. If people believe that everything is the result of external cause and effect processes, they are unlikely to take free-will seriously and unlikely to promote its development. If teachers believe that what should be done is clearly indicated by some set of rules about what is and what is not proper, they are unlikely to help students to assess alternatives and to choose among them freely. People with legalistic mentalities are prone to act as if the student's duty is to obey---and do what proper expectations dictate. They will not try to teach students how to wisely make and act upon decisions, and to assess the results of such decisions and actions. People who believe in a naive version of predestination are unlikely to be free to learn how to decide and act wisely; they are likely to be preoccupied with trying to "read" and "fulfill" an uncritically "chosen" or "given" script. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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