EDUCATION Modern higher education is coming under increasingly critical attacks for its "soul-less", technology-oriented, de-personalized methodology. As to specifics, students appear to be asking for more direct and personal involvement in classwork, more relatedness between what happens in class and life experience, and deeper, personal, more meaningful relationships with the more knowing member of the class experience, the professor. The encounter approach of contemporary psychology offers some hope to the too prevalent dehumanizing pressures of education. The encounter is a creative experience wherein one enters into the reality of a situation in terms of the conditions and requirements intrinsic to that situation. Openness, receptiveness, and relatedness are significant aspects of the encounter. The encounter is an immediate, imminent reality between persons engaged in a living communion, where there is a sense of mutuality. The application of these concepts to educational concerns is at once difficult, but not impossible. —Stanley Ballard 44
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