ABSTRACT
In the past there has been a tendency to assume that social organization was something which happened from above, a tendency to think, like Rousseau, that we were all free, separate, self-contained beings, chained together by laws, atoms organized from above by government decree. But a research has shown that this political organization is only very small part of social organization. According to Mayo, education should aim at making it possible for a person to make a logical and intelligent response when necessary, by giving a 'technique of inquiry'. Both the irrational and the non-logical response have no roots in the reasoning power of the individual; but the non-logical is at least reasonable in its results, or tends to be, though there are obviously some social codes. In school life the clash of two different systems of nonlogical responses is illustrated most obviously when the standards and social traditions of the parents are markedly different from those of the school.
