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     %SCIENCE EDUCATION CRISIS REFLEXIVE PROFESSION 910624

     Whenever   any profession has effective control  over
how  it  is perceived by the public at large,    there  is
bound  to  be a  crisis  due   to  collusive   corruption.
Power   without  restraint  leads  to  corruption,   often
through  the operation of collusive games of  mutual  self
deception.

     How  a profession is perceived by the public at large
may  be   strongly    influenced    through    educational
channels,     as  members  of the profession  control  the
definition   of   the curriculum and the certification  of
professional educators who play central roles in  training
each new generation  of professionals.

     The difficulty in maintaining wise public perceptions
of a profession   is  especially  great  in  the  instance
of  scientific  professions which are dominated by  people
who are  compulsively preoccupied with objectivity;    for
the  professionals  are poorly equipped to reflect  wisely
upon  their  profession,   and so they are prone  to  play
collusive    games   of   mutual   self   deception    and
congratulation.

     The  public  at large finds that many  benefits  flow
from  the scientific professions,   and the public is  ill
equipped  to be  critical  of the  scientific  cornucopia;
and  thus  the public  at  large  is  prone  to  buy  into
the   non-objective   self-perceptions  of  scientists who
are  ill equipped  to be wisely reflexive, because reflex-
ivity is essentially non-objective, taboo.

     Thus,    it  is important for the public at large  to
seek assistance  from  all  professions  to  help   inform
the   educational     process    to    promote    unbiased
educational  perceptions  of  each and  every  profession;
each profession contributing  to  a balance perception  of
each  and  every other profession.   No profession  should
have an unbalanced control  of how it is represented to to
school  children,  college students,   university students
and  graduate  school students.   Every profession  should
contribute to how every other  profession is perceived and
represented within  the educational process.

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