Date of Award

8-1927

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Education

First Advisor

James M. O'Gorman

Second Advisor

William M. Magee

Abstract

By method is meant that arrangement of subject matter, which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of material. Even from the standpoint of an individual who is dealing with subject matter, it is not something external but rather thoroughly individual. Each person has his own instinctive way of dealing with material. The attitude and mode of approach and attack are individual. To ignore this individuality of approach, to try to substitute for it, under the name of general method, a uniform scheme of procedure is simply to cripple the only effective agencies of operation and to over lay them with a mechanical formalism that produces little mental quality. What are effective agencies of operation? They are the traits of good methods as expressed in terms of the attitude of the individual, namely, Straight-forwardness, Open minded will to learn, Integrity of purpose, and Responsibility. In discussing these traits, it may be said that straight-forwardness has for its menacing foes --­ self-consciousness, embarrassment, and constraint. A lack of straight-forwardness then indicates that a person is not immediately concerned with subject matter. Something has come between which deflects concern to side issues. A person who is not straight-forward is partly thinking about his problem and partly about what others think of his performances. Diverted energy means loss of power and confusion of ideas. It is extremely necessary to possess this attitude of straight­ forwardness because it denotes unconscious faith in the possibilities of the situation,--rising to the needs of the situation.

Comments

A Thesis submitted partially to fulfill the requirements for The Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University

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