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                              %EDUCATIONAL POLITICS 861128

     Teachers have great political power.   They shape the
conceptions   of  reality  that  citizens  use  in  making
political decisions.   Deep seated convictions about human
nature  flow  from  the classroom and from the  quality of
personal  relationships  between  teachers  and  students.
Attitudes  about how best to cope in trying situations are
transmitted from teachers to students.  Patterns of how to
formulate  basic  questions  originate  in  the  classroom
context. Notions of values develop through what is treated
with  respect  in  the classroom,  what  is  treated  with
disdain,   and  what is  ignored.    Tomorrow's  political
priorities are swayed by today's classroom teachers.

     Today's  teachers were greatly  influenced  by  their
professors  in colleges and universities.   By  and  large
those  professors  are  specialists,  with  rather  narrow
conceptions of  reality.   They are  more  concerned  with
objective evidence, analysis and academic truth, than they
are  with promoting meaningful personal relationships  and
communal  cooperation.    Should such people be  given the
political  power  to shape the lives of the  teachers  who
will mold our youth into tomorrow  political leaders?  Are
objectivity  and analysis the most basic values needed  in
promoting the  public welfare?   Might  it be that concern
for  balanced  personal  and communal integrity  are  more
essential?
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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