Article evaluates the role of the middle class in the course of Western civilization and its discovery and underwriting of liberal humanism. (Author/RK)

Author tackles the basic problem of justifying instruction in a level of language usage that is regarded as elitist. (Editor/CB)

Article reviews Hesse's novels for their social and moral values and stresses their influence upon today's students. (GB)

Authors' hope that this critical evaluation can place Carl Rogers' assumptions into perspective; they propose a compromise program meant to satisfy the basic aims of a humanistic psychology program. For Rogers' rejoinder see AA 512 869. (MB)

Describes an effective workshop for humanizing education which is being applied in many other school systems. (Author/MB)

It seems clear, even to the most antagonistic opponent of behaviorally defined objectives, that there is quite a bit of empirical work of ultimate value to be done in educational research. (Author)

Works of contemporary Spanish essayists, Pedro Lain Entralgo, Juan Rof Carballo, Jose Luis Aranguren, and Enrique Tierus Galvan, are analyzed. (DS)

The director of the Program on Humanistic Education at the State University of New York at Albany argues that the continuing attempt to discover 'divine and golden images' and to draw forth the 'good and honorable man' is the mission of Humanistic Education." (Author/AA)

Stresses the need for the educator to behave humanely in order to nurture humaneness among students. (JH)

The debate over the death penalty in the United States has implications beyond our borders. Because of the lack of universal standards governing its use, only those countries which have abolished capital punishment may, with any moral authority, denounce its exploitation as an instrument of political expediency. (IS)

Modern disillusionment with rationalistic and mechanistic creeds increases the relevance of the thought of Giambattista Vico, an eighteenth century thinker. Vico's "New Science" dealt with the origins of human consciousness and society, and with the development of human nature, knowledge, and institutions in ways that anticipate modern…