This is http://www.essayz.com/a8812241.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.} ========================================================== %DISINTEGRATE PERSONAL SCIENTIST PROFESSOR SCHOOL 881224 Often scholars operate on the assumption that there should be a split between their professional scholarly work and their personal lives. They operate as if there should be no intimate connection between their personal lives and their scholarly writings. This assumption probably originates in the false notion that through objectivity it is possible to transcend bias. When that assumption is believed, it appears that the way to truth is through objectivity. Thus scholars often seek to find the truth through objective efforts which are split off from their intimate personal lives. To such scholars it is taboo to intimately connect their personal lives and their scholarly writings. They believe that if writings are intimately personal, they cannot be scholarly. Thus scholarship and personal lives disintegrate and lack coherence. When such scholars are professors in colleges and universities, and profess their assumptions as objective fact, they entrap their students in their disintegrative system of values. Through their professions they induct their students into their addictive and codependent patterns of collusive scholarship. It is all very seductive, because their professions are regarded by many as being well grounded in objective research. Yet the research is founded and funded upon false assumptions about the nature of the relationships among people and that which is real apart from people. These assumptions cannot be objectively sh own to be true apart from the assumption that they are true. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================