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  %TEACH SCIENCE TECHNOCRACY IDEALS VALUES HONESTLY 890403

     When  the  teaching  of  science  and  technology  is
separated  from  the  overt consideration  of  ideals  and
values,    the   process   of   instruction   becomes   an
indoctrination aspect of a technocratic society.

     When  science  and technology are not taught  overtly
and  honestly as means towards the achievement of explicit
ideals  and  values,   science and  technology  themselves
become  the foci of ideals and values.  Means become  ends
when  they  are not openly and honestly seen to be in  the
service of specific transcendent ideals and values.

     The  process of teaching science and technology takes
the  time  of  the  professors  and  the  students.    The
professors  by spending their time and asking students  to
spend  their time are professing the value they see in the
technology.   Human  time  is the ultimate  limited  human
resource.   To spend time on an activity is to affirm  the
worth of the activity. To seduce/require students to spend
the  best years of their life in learning specific  skills
is to teach them that the skills are worthy of their time.
If no other values and ideals are taught at the same time,
it  is  inevitable  that  students  will  learn  that  the
technical knowledge and skills are inherently valuable  in
and of themselves.

     To  avoid  the  traps of  addiction  to  science  and
technology, science and technology professors must overtly
and  honestly  deal  with  the  issues  present  in  value
conflicts  relating  to  the proper uses  of  science  and
technology.  To pretend to avoid the teaching of values in
science  and  technology classes is to contribute  to  the
development   of  a  technocratic  society  in  which  the
professors and students are blind to their own ideals  and
values;   and  so to contribute to the  development  of  a
collusive society addicted to science and technology.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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