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%QUALITY TEACHER PROFESSOR STUDENT LEARNING HELPING 891108

     The  quality of the help which a teacher or professor
offers to students depends upon technical competency;  and
also upon the attitudes, assumptions, values, ideals, etc.
which  play central roles in shaping the character of  the
personal  relationships  between students and teachers  or
professors.

     A  common  set of attitudes,   assumptions,   values,
ideals,   etc.   leads  to very  impersonal  relationships
between   students  and  those  who  ostensibly  lead  the
learning processes of the students.  The character of such
personal  relationships  is that they are  depersonalized,
and  create  a depersonalized context  for  depersonalized
learning.   Such depersonalized learning does not liberate
students to live meaningful personal lives.

     We   need  to be  more  attentive   to  the  set   of
attitudes,   assumptions,   values,  ideals,  etc.   which
occasions  the variety of personal  relationships  between
and  among  students and professors.  The quality  of  the
personal  relationships are as important as the  technical
competency  which is offered.  The quality of the personal
relationships needs attention equal to the attention given
to technical competency.

     It   is   not enough to have competency  in  abstract
concepts   regarding  personal  relationships.   What   is
necessary  is experience in being meaningfully involved in
healthy personal relationships; such involvement is not an
academic  matter which is captured in its essence  through
scholarly study. Effective education is lead by people who
are    affectively    involved   in    healthy    personal
relationships.   People who are not experienced in healthy
personal  relationships  are unable to  lead  students  in
healthy  ways  to  learn how to cope and  lead  meaningful
personal lives. Technical competency can lead to technical
disaster  in  the absence of experienced familiarity  with
healthy personal relationships.

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