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  %THEORY LEARN TEACH STUDENT PROFESS ADDICT DEPEND 900508

     Any  adequate  theory of teaching and  learning  will
take into account the effects of addictive and codependent
attitudes  and  patterns  of  thought;   for  addicts  and
codependents  are learning disabled by their addiction  to
dishonesty as a technique for coping.   People who  cannot
be  honest  about their mistakes cannot learn  from  their
mistakes.

     Learning  is   not  a  technical/objective   process.
Learning is  a   personal  reflexive process in  which the
person  learning  is  constantly reflecting in one way  or
another   upon  how that  which  is being learned reflects
back  upon  the  self  conception   and  behavior  of  the
student.  People who are trapped  in addictive/codependent
patterns  of  thought  and behavior are unable to  reflect
honestly  upon who they are and who they are becoming, and
so  they  cannot guide their own learning process  in  any
coherent way.

     Teaching is not a technical/objective process;  it is
a  reflexive  process in which the success and/or  failure
of  the  student  reflects  in  some  way  back  upon  the
instructor,   teacher    or   professor.      Instructors,
teachers     and   professors    who   are   trapped    in
addictive/codependent  patterns  of  thought and  behavior
are  unable  to  reflect honestly  upon who they  are  and
how  they  relate  to  their students in  their  students'
learning experiences;  and so they  cannot guide their own
instructional process in  any coherent way.

     In   a  liberal  arts  college  students  are  to  be
liberated  from  that  which  inhibits  them;   ignorance,
prejudice,  addictions, codependence and collusions.  Such
liberation  is  often not welcomed and  carefully  avoided
using  all  the  tricks of the collusive games  of  mutual
self  deception  which   seem so natural  to  addicts  and
codependents.    The educational  process  is a process of
helping students to want to get beyond the dishonest games
which   they   learned  from  their  extended  family  and
friends.  Failing to  take proper account of the nature of
the process is part of the addictive process.

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