This is http://www.essayz.com/a8611283.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ELITE PROFESSION 861128 An elite profession can remain so only by being an exclusive profession. To remain elite it must maintain policies which will keep the profession elite in traditional ways. To be dedicated to openness would undermine such exclusive policies, and bring into the profession a wider variety of persons. Thus, the elite professions narrowly select the kinds of persons to be admitted into their professions. This promotes narrow specialization, and high degrees of competency in the narrow sub specialties. Such competencies are highly valued by elite professions. The price paid for such valued competencies is alienation from non-specialists who are kept out. Rather than recognizing its dependence upon the broader community, the elite profession tends to promote and overemphasize the mirror image dependency of the broader community upon the elite profession. The elite professionals seek to be independent of others, while others are encouraged to be dependent upon them. They seek to be controllers of their own destiny, rather than be realistic participants within a genuinely interdependent and coherent whole which has survival value by virtue of its integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================