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%LEARNING DIFFICULTIES 850718
Professors often assume that when students do not do
well on intellectual homework assignments and tests that
the cause of failure is intellectual or cognitive in
nature; the students are not bright enough for their
challenging course. Professors may recognize that serious
emotional trauma's like deaths in the family and problems
in inter-personal relationships with parents, friends and
lovers may play a role through distraction. Similarly
with financial and cultural shock for students outside
their native country.
Rarely do professors recognize and give due
consideration to the deliberative effect upon a student
associated with the emotions elicited by cognitive
dissonance between the subject matter as taught by the
professor and the student's pre-existing cognitive
perspectives. The subject matter as taught by the
professor may constitute a serious threat to the personal
integrity of the student. The student may have a very
high intellectual ability for some subject matter, yet be
unable to learn it because it is taught in a way which
forces the student to compromise personal integrity to
learn the material or maintain personal integrity at the
price of not learning the material.
If professors are not committed to promoting
student's personal and communal integrity they will
usually not care much about the way in which their
teaching threatens students' personal integrity. Tough
luck! Such an attitude is evil in the sense that it
promotes alienation and the disintegration of both
personal and communal integrity; robbing the community of
the creative abilities of students who might have been
helped to integrate the subject matter into their lives in
a coherent way by helping them resolve the cognitive
conflicts which blocked their learning, conflicts between
ideals and principles not clearly seen in the light of
transcendent human perspectives.
Understanding learning difficulties can be a key to
improving the quality of human education and human lives.
Rigor in sorting out those with learning difficulties and
rejecting them as unfit is evil behavior.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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