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%PROFESSORS WITHOUT SYMPATHY 850422
To create a context within which college students
find it easy to learn ideas which challenge the prejudices
which they bring to college, one must be good at
sympathizing with students' intellectual and affective
situations. Why then is it that so many college and
university professors are unable to sympathize with their
students' situations and so unable to help create contexts
conducive to learning. What ideals of the professors
stand in the way?
Most professors have internalized the ideal of
transcending bias by being thoroughly committed to
objectivity as the way to truth in contrast to
subjectivity as the way to bias. To fulfill the
commitment to objectivity professors must repress the
emotions which would undermine objective perceptions,
including most emotions associated with sympathetic
understandings of students instructional and learning
situations. You can not sympathize with students'
learning difficulties without becoming a participant in
those difficulties, and so ceasing to be objective and
detached from them. Objectivity requires detachment,
suppression of emotions. The ideal of being objective is
in conflict with the ideal of being sympathetic.
Professors can not be sympathetic because they are
committed to the ideal of being helpful to students. That
is how they have been trained in graduate schools, to
value objectivity more than they value students as
persons.
Graduate schools programs focus upon pure research as
a way of affirming the ideal of objectivity. The
technical training is a means to an end. The goal is to
indoctrinate graduate students into the exclusive value of
objectivity. The goal is not to resolve conflicts among
human ideals, but to make one chosen ideal of ultimate
importance by advancing it as the ideal way to transcend
bias to the exclusion of all other ways of transcending
bias. The ideal of exclusivity is the cause of
objectivity's bias and the reason so many professors are
unable to help students to learn with integrity how to be
and help others be liberally educated.
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