This booklet explores some of the issues concerning five major problems regarding educational accountability. These are problems of skills and behavioral objectives, intelligence and holistic behavior, the nature of learning and the causes of behavior, humanistic goals of education, and professional accountability. General comments about methods…

Illustrates that the management concept of accountability can be a beneficial tool if cautiously developed and implemented. Includes a self-assessment instrument for administrators. (Author/MLF)

This article is not an attempt to outline the training program for developing humanistic competencies nor is it intended to list those immeasurable words that have been used so much in the past such as caring, genuineness, loving and others, but merely to point out that there are models from which observable changes can take place. (Author/RK)

The importance of literature and poetry to the individual is examined. The author concludes that "...we learn from poesy that the human condition has a fixed range of options for action and/or contemplation...and that each option carries with it the burden of consequences." (Author/RW)

Criticizes humanists who consider computers confining, difficult to learn, and dehumanizing. (NKA)

Human beings must develop both a rational acceptance of unfolding scientific knowledge and an attitude of caring and tolerance for all lives. Supernatural conceptions are almost always exclusive concerning some aspects of reality and have often been the basis for inhumane conduct. Everyday we create our lives. (CS)

Examines (1) the historical development of humanistic linguistics through five stages of western renaissances--Carolingian renaissance, twelfth-century renaissance, Italian renaissance, neo-humanism, and impressionism and idealism and (2) how the late twentieth century continues the tradition. Expressionism and structuralism, philology,…

The self-actualization needs of the gifted student are not being met in today's schools. Available from: Department of Special Education, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608. (IM)

Science and humanism are separated so completely as to bring about the creation of two cultures quite distinct from each other within contemporary civilization. Pragmatic, rational attitudes are needed on both sides to bring them together. (DF)

This paper presents a hypothetical school, along with suggestions concerning the teacher-curricular composition that would help operationalize Maslow's theory in the schools. The aim and objectives of the hypothetical school seek to reduce the animal in man and to produce truly human beings. (Author)

An interview with the new chairman of the national Endowment for the Humanities. (HS)

The author discusses the historical, philosophical and rhetorical means of inquiry of Giambattista Vico. (Author/MF)

Ideals of education are discussed in an effort to determine the best way to develop the human mind. (CK)