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%SCIENCE PROFESS STUDENT TRANSCEND VIOLENT PARADIGM 910703

The  science professor who seeks to promote  personal  and
communal  integrity  among creative students is  bound  to
find herself in double binds.  To gain tenure the  science
professor  must  show  more  dedication  to  research  and
publication than to students;  for excessive dedication to
helping  students  is  clearly  counter-indicated  by  the
typical university's system of rewards and punishments. To
survive   she  must  be  preoccupied  with  research   and
publications,   not with students who are having  learning
difficulties.   To show signs of interest in understanding
students'   learning difficulties is dangerous,  for  such
interest is in violation of the paradigm's collusive games
of  mutual self deception regarding being objective at all
times and cost.

The  personally  sensitive science professor must  not  be
overly  sensitive  to her students as persons,   for  such
sensitivity is in violation of the scientists'   collusive
games  of mutual self deception regarding being  objective
at all times.  Personal involvement with students as human
beings  is counter-indicated by the  typical  university's
system  of rewards and punishments.  Such  involvement  is
not, and cannot be objective, and so is taboo.

When  the potential science professor becomes aware of the
conflict between professional security and advancement  on
the  one hand,  and being responsive to students as  human
beings with learning difficulties, on the other hand;  she
is  faced with a difficult choice which depends upon where
in her professional life she is:

(1)   As  a junior or senior high school student  she  may
decide  that  science is not for her;  or  that  she  will
repress  her awareness of the conflict and do violence  to
people who get in the way of her professional advancement.

(2)   As a college or university student she may decide to
shift  away from the more exact and demanding sciences  to
the  social  sciences  which  are  not  as  mathematically
demanding; or become accultrated to the norms of the male
addictive profession in order to try to survive.

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