ABSTRACT
In recognizing the inevitability of rapid change in today’s society, educators are challenged as never before to find the means of developing in youth a stable personality. The only predictions about the future that can be made with certainty are that it will be different and change will be a constant way of life. Supposedly the well-adjusting personality, the stable and flexible person, can adapt to change whereas the maladjusting personality feels threatened and becomes defensive, resistive, and often violent. The cure for these self-defeating coping strategies, so far as educators are concerned, lies not in emergency measures but rather in ‘the steady, consistent effort to make education more responsive to the real needs and essential quality of all human beings’.1
