1970 Miracle Yearbook

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 per- sonal involvement in classwork, more relatedness between what hap- pens in class and life experience, and deeper, personal, more mean- ingful relationships with the more knowing member of the class ex- perience, the professor. The encounter approach of contemporary psychology offers some hope to the too prevalent dehumanizing pres- sures of education. The encounter is a creative experience wherein one enters into the reality of a situation in terms of the conditions and re- quirements 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 im- possible. —Stanley Ballard 44