An increasing number of people have come to believe that the currentschool system has failed to adapt to the rapid social changes taking placetoday, and has somehow become fundamentally dysfunctional.
Educational reformers for the most part assert the necessity oftransforming the system from a discipline-oriented to a self-actualizationoriented one, namely substituting the school as a producer of useful andsubmissive workers by the school as a supporter of self-actualization.
Historically, the modern education system was designed to instillbasic habits and ways of thinking which could last consistently throughoutan individual's life. The concealed but clear function of education inmodern industrial society was to cast children into a mold of industrialworkers.
However, the contemporary social system demands workers who havethe strong ambition to develop their ability as workers and have strongwork motivation and the desire to continuously educate themselves to learnnew technology and knowledge.
Therefore, educational reformers seek useful management technologyin order to motivate people toward self-actualization. Professional interestgroups of counselors have responded to this demand for new customersby gradually ridding themselves of the medical paradigm an adopting aneducational one.
Critics who see devices for modern discipline and training to beunnecessary or even harmful, and who view counseling as a useful toolfor such devices, are against school counseling.
On the other hand, there are people who believe schools shouldcontinue to play an important role for discipline and training, but whoconsider that traditional methods are no longer effective. Those who seethings in this way and consider counseling as a useful new tool fordiscipline and training obviously welcome school counseling.
This author is personally in favor of a school system which promotesself-actualization, but is critical of traditional counseling with its inclinationto eliminate problems without solving by emotion management. The authoris also opposed to the social construction of counseling as an authentichuman relation.
Many problems involving schools arise from their excessive roles andfunctions. Nobody can exit from the school as a total institution, becauseeverything resides inside them. This author's belief is that shelters and otheroptions should be provided outside.
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