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The Effect Of A Special Method Of Instruction In The Development Of Scientific Attitudes, Helen Heacock Ellis Jan 1936

The Effect Of A Special Method Of Instruction In The Development Of Scientific Attitudes, Helen Heacock Ellis

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Sharing the views of many other educators, particularly certain political scientists of the day, Professor Arthur S. White contends that "democracy...has failed, not only to produce leaders of intelligence and vision, but it has failed to produce that degree of intelligence essential to its survival." Convinced that education for information only has proved inadequate to meet the demands of a self-governing society, he has developed a type of classroom procedure which he believes will more effectively produce habits of thought essential to the survival of democracy than the traditional methods of teaching used in our colleges.

This study has its …