Manipulation helps with coaching someone. Without it the facts are likely to just bounce off their skulls.
Teachers use it all the time, but they call it a "Teaching Style".
I figured I'd observe, cause I think you Daniella, are capable of damning my soul to hell.
I don't agree with your logic. It entails a raised consciousness "would" lie, cheat, and impose it's will against others unknowingly. I can't respect that.
Yesterday you say how humans are like flowers. Inanimate and have no free will, on the basis that we never choose who we are, so it stops there, today you say if someone is so great, they ought to be manipulative to others to bend them to their own will, and how society is like a bucket of water with a shit in it, that you wouldn't want to put your hand in it. But damn, it's like no win situation cause if you don't put your hand in a bucket of shit, you're a lifeless deadbeat, cause the society we're in is temporarily where we'll be staying for the remainder of life.
I'm not even trying to be an ass, I'm just repulsed by your logic.
"It's your opinion that you can't use your skills to make someone else better."
Not true. I do use my skills to help make others better in the areas in which I have some experience and/or expertise. Hence, the teaching, coaching and mentoring. I also believe that my work in general will eventually lead to improvements in the quality of life for many people, as well as build upon already laid scientific foundations and increase human knowledge of the brain and conditions that interfere with socioemotional processing. If I didn't believe this, all the effort would not be worth it.
Without the idea that I am actually doing some good for the world, I would do nothing. To me, there is little point to my existence but my contribution. Without it I'd feel like nothing more than a pleasure-seeking automation, entirely selfish and without purpose. That's a rather unappealing idea.
Before anyone goes jumping down my throat about the last paragraph, I don't believe that everyone's purpose in life is the same. Contributions can be made on a variety of levels. Everyone is capable of bettering themselves and helping others to better themselves. The ways in which one might choose to do so are up to the individual and are no less valid than my own contributions.
"I didn't mean to say your ego was too large. I just took what you said as inspiration for this thread."
Good to know. Thank you for clarifying.
"One cannot make a student want to learn something or force an understanding on a student who does not have the appropriate educational background to understand the material."
The "want to learn something" portion is supposed to be a part of their job.
"It's very difficult to manipulate, and unethical by the definition of the word, in the context of a classroom setting."
Is it? Teachers do that stuff all the time.
"To me, there is little point to my existence but my contribution. Without it I'd feel like nothing more than a pleasure-seeking automation, entirely selfish and without purpose. That's a rather unappealing idea."
Automation sort of implies a lack of pleasure, doesn't it?
Contribution is fairly arbitrary, so serving ourselves makes more sense. Of course, if contribution is your means of pleasure, then that is your self-serving behavior, your "pleasure seeking automation".
We're more automatic than we want to believe, but at least we're equipped with the means of both enjoying it and being potentially ignorant of it.