ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a study that has been in the fields of philosophy, psychology and sociology, and each discipline has in turn been applied to education. Doctrinaire solutions based upon nothing but political postures, economic emergencies, or upon psychological theories or metaphysical and religious prejudice, are inevitably partial, if not specifically harmful. If our society is to survive with anything like an integrated culture, amidst the ever-evolving sub-cultures and mass cultures of our time, then educators themselves are primarily responsible for understanding these movements in their society, and for seeking to absorb and to modify them in some way. If, in Pilate-fashion, we seek to wash hands of all moral and value-judgements in our teaching, and remain simply in the realms of logic, scientific method, statistical social analysis and an amoral psychological behaviourism, we must not be surprised if the less intelligent members of our society become depraved, deviant or delinquent.
