This publication examines the importance of humaneness in the schools. It considers the development of courtesy, gratitude, appreciation, and a sense of empathy among individuals. The use of self-discipline to organize time and talent to produce humaneness is discussed. Trends leading toward and away from greater humanization in the schools are…

The school curriculum should be reappraised, and new guidelines developed, establishing different levels of achievement for pupils of different abilities. The increase in the understanding of the psychology of learning is one of the great accomplishments of the last one hundred years. Some years ago it was generally believed that much of what…