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  %ROLE MODEL TEACHER STUDENT INSTRUCTION EDUCATION 910502

     It  is  important  to  recognize the  nature  of  the
essential  role  which  an  effective  liberal   education
teacher/professor plays.

     The essential role does not have to do primarily with
the transmission of knowledge;  for there are many  texts,
tape recordings and video presentations which can transmit
information;   along  with computer assisted  instruction.
Information  can  be transmitted through  technology  more
efficiently than through live persons.

     Students need  to learn to be  comfortable  with both
new   ideas/ideals    and    the  implications   of    new
ideas/ideals.   Technologies   are  not  as  effective  in
helping students  to learn  how to be comfortable with new
ideas,     ideals  and their  implications;   as are  live
human beings whom students feel free to trust.

     A major  responsibility of a teacher/professor is  to
provide secure contexts in which students see the  teacher
or professor deal comfortably with new ideas/ideals;   and
in  which the teacher or professor encourages the students
to  gain  confidence in dealing  comfortably  and  without
embarrassment with the new ideas and ideals.

     New ideas and ideals are likely to conflict with  old
ideas, ideals, and patterns of thought and behavior.  Thus
for the students to learn how to feel comfortable with new
ideas/ideals,  the students'  teachers and professors need
to  be   able  to  help the  students  to  participate  in
effective  conflict resolution.   Conflict resolution does
not  have  to  do   with the  ascendance  of  one  set  of
ideas/ideals  through  domination over  another  competing
set.    Conflict resolution has  to do with integration of
all that is healthy in  the old  with all that is  healthy
in the new.    People  should feel  comfortable  and  free
of   embarrassment   when   the  conflict   resolution  is
completed;    not angry,   resentful,   mad,   revengeful,
embarrassed, etc.

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