ABSTRACT

The members of the political science profession have often been great teachers is a statement that cannot be successfully challenged. Tireless teacher, publicist, scholar, and advisor, Harold J. Laski was a model for one of the most attractive and rewarding roles open to professional students of politics, law, and government. The communications revolution has made possible a film library containing the main body of political science knowledge. In all that touches on intellectual accomplishment, political science will share the benefits expected to follow the revolution in education now under way. As much attention needs to be given the cultivation of the "whole man" among political scientists as is provided in many military and business programs for the education of young officers and executives. In common with all values, the cultivation of an aesthetic perspective has two phases—shaping and sharing. The former phase is exhibited in the skills of the craftsman, the latter, in the contemplative skill of the connoisseur.