ABSTRACT
In Mind, Self and Society Mead maintains that it is social intercourse which makes us human beings. The social attitudes imply that the social process, with its various implications, is in fact taken up into the experience of the individual and in consequence that which is going on in society takes place more effectively because the individual has rehearsed. Language mediates; it is a principle of social organization which makes the distinctively human society possible. The vocal gesture has an importance that no other gesture has; for whilst cannot see ourselves when faces assume certain expressions, if hear ourselves speak are more apt to pay attention. In the discussion of the aims of education it is frequently, and sometimes rather loosely, claimed that the important goal to achieve is the fullest possible development of the personality, the eliciting of innate qualities. The educational importance of role-taking becomes increasingly clear in ever–growing society.
