This article is intended to accomplish three separate goals: to offer a statement of purpose for MISOE, to suggest implications of MISOE for managers of public education and society at large, and to present a guide for efficient reading of this publication. (Author/RK)

Iranian government leaders stress need for schools to promote skills and values necessary for economic development--increased initiative, group effort, respect for manual labor. However, the social structure, and teaching methods employed, are directly contradictory to these goals. Changes that would lead to implementation of these goals are…