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          %SPECIALIST ALIENATIVE JUDGMENTAL EXPERTS 880506

     Often  people  who  are  highly  qualified  in   some
specialty act as though their expertise in their specialty
confers upon them some special power to act as judge  over
people who are not so highly qualified in their specialty.
Their  presumption  regarding  acting as  judges leads  to
alienation and educational failures when they attempt   to
educe other people's potential qualifications.

     Technical   experts   are  not  qualified   to   make
judgments  regarding values by virtue of  their  technical
expertise.    Ability pertaining to "how"  does not confer
upon   those  who  have the ability,   the power, to  make
wise judgments about  the  desirability  of  using   their
technical  skills.  Technical  specialists, however,  tend
to  want to prove their personal  worth  by  demonstrating
that  it   has  been   worth    their    time    to   gain
their    technical competence.      The less  self  esteem
and the greater  the  portion  of  their   time devoted to
training,   the  greater is  the tendency to want to prove
that the  training  time was  worth  the investment.  This
leads to the desire to make use of  the  technical  skills
regardless of the relevance of the technical skills to the
situation at hand.

     The   greater the ability of  technical  specialists,
the  greater  is  the  tendency to  wish  to  justify  the
investment entailed in developing the skills;  whether the
investment  be  in time or ability which might  have  been
invested   in  other ways.    If the  justification  takes
place    within   a  judgmental   social  context,    self
justification is  likely to   take  the  form of invidious
comparisons designed  to prove   self  to  be  more worthy
of  acceptance  than    are others.      Of   course  such
comparisons  are  likely   to   be  made   in   terms   of
criteria  in  terms  of which self  is likely   to   shine
as  superior;      e.g.,     technical competence.    Such
efforts  at  self justification naturally turn out  to  be
alienative.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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