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     The  effectiveness  of  a  teacher  or  professor  in
helping  students  to grow in liberating  and  integrative
ways  depends  much on the value which  the  professor  or
teacher  places  upon honest personal  relationships  with
students.

     If students are regarded as  means to technical ends,
there  is not likely to be much liberation;  the  students
will  be used and abused,  either actively  or  passively.
This  will be true even if the technical ends are  defined
in  terms of the achievement of instructional goals by the
professor  or  the teacher.  If the goals are defined  and
achieved  by the instructor,  the students are most likely
going  to  be regarded as means to those ends,  and so  be
used and abused either actively or passively. The students
are  unlikely to be perceived as and received participants
in personal relationships.

     When  students  are not accepted as  participants  in
personal relationships there is estrangement,  alienation,
and  a  minimum of personal communication which  is  open,
authentic, honest, intimate, trustful, liberating, etc.

     The   development  of  sophisticated  techniques   of
instruction  does  not  compensate  for  the  absence   of
authentic, honest, intimate, trustful, liberating personal
relationships.   The substitution of one for the other  is
ineffective.  Balance is essential and is not achieved  by
replacing  one  with the other.  Balance is  not  achieved
unilaterally   by  students,   professors,   teachers   or
administrators  acting in the absence of full dialogue and
honest cooperation with the others. The absence of efforts
by  one  segment  of  the  learning  community  cannot  be
balanced  by  unilateral  efforts on the part  of  another
segment of the learning community. Balance is not achieved
by over compensation.

     The quality of an educational venture depends greatly
upon the quality of the interpersonal communications among
the participants in the educational venture.  The  quality
of  interpersonal communications is not a technical matter
and  cannot be controlled by technical  considerations  on
the part of technical experts and authorities. The quality
of  interpersonal communications cannot be  controlled  by
any  segment  of the community;  it is a function  of  the
fears,    desires  and  efforts  of  all  members  of  the
community.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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