Lists the Goals of Education developed by Phi Delta Kappa, a professional education fraternity, and shows that business educators have direct input in developing student competencies in 77.8 percent of the goals listed. (JOW)

Contends that America's educational establishment has been wrong about almost everything it has espoused in the last generation. Indicates that pragmatism has been the basis of American educational philosophy and it hasn't worked. (JOW)

In October 1970, the MENC (Music Educators National Conference) National Executive Board officially adopted two goals for MENC, four for the profession, and 35 objectives. The goals and objectives, and the progress made toward obtaining them, are summarized. (KC)

Missing from the "Seven Cardinal Principles" of 1918 and a restatement of them in 1978 is the principle that secondary students have a moral responsibility to learn, understand, and respect the values inherent in other races and religions. (Author/IRT)

The author shows that the nature and ultimate purpose of education is most comprehensible when educational improvement is seen as an aid to man's spiritual evolution. (MM)

What is the best way to produce adults who have certain characteristics? Educational goals can be broken down into behavioral components, and the most propitious developmental stage for the acquisition of each can be identified. (BD)

Discusses the objectives of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and raises questions relating the need for rehabilitation with the needs of the cultures of Hawaii and the Pacific Basin. (RK)

A true elaboration of educational goals will include a set of both more and less well-structured aims, corresponding to behavioral objectives and subjectives, which can be tested respectively by direct methods and by less direct methods such as the native speaker or Turing tests. (Author/LS)

All too often discussion of Capability proceeds as if it is clear what "Capability" is and that all that is required is the ascertaining of means for developing it. This paper seeks to explore the meanings of Capability. It provides two broad meanings, and discusses the paradoxes inherent in the application of these to the real world of management…

Since Dilthey we have become used to thinking of reason as having a cultural and historical setting. If we take this insight seriously, then critical rationality or critical thinking can no longer be conceived of as context-free skills. This paper takes up the line of thought that is elaborated by Christopher Winch in his 'Developing Critical…

The main points made by Clarke and Mearman about Winch's article, 'The Economic Aims of Education,' are taken up and discussed. My argument is that work is not necessarily a disutility, although paid employment can be when it is undertaken in conditions that are not fulfilling. Life aims are not the same as educational aims, although educational…