to include them to illustrate the conditions that are passed through
and slipped back into too often in our schools, our apprenticeship
and in all but the best of managements.
The outline of advancement must be known and recognized if the
quality of teaching, efficiency, and management is to be graded in
its right class.
When we consider that each type of record bears a relation to
each type of programme, the complexity of the problems involved
become apparent. This will be better shown in Table II.
TABLE II
1. Unconscious record, unconscious programme.
2. Conscious record, unconscious programme.
3. Unconscious record, conscious programme.
4. Conscious record, conscious programme.
I. Man working 5. Unconscious record, written programme.
for himself. 6. Written record, unconscious programme.
7. Conscious record, written programme.
8. Written record, conscious programme.
9. Written record, written programme.
10. Standardized record, standardized programme.
ILLUSTRATION OF THIS COMPLEXITY.--Table II represents the man
working for himself, with subdivisions under it showing the possible
relationship between his record and his programme. We find that
these are at least ten, reaching all the way from the unconscious
record and unconscious programme of the migrating transitory laborer
to the standardized record and the standardized programme of the
manager who manages himself scientifically.
Each one of these represent a distinct psychological stage. The
progression may not be regular and smooth as is here given,--it may
be a jump, possibly even from one to nine. It may, however, be a
slow progression from one stage to another, largely to be determined
by the type of mind that is considered, and the opportunities for
development along scientific lines which are afforded. It is the
writer's intention to discuss these at length at some other time.
Here it is only possible to enumerate, in order to show the size and
complexity of the problem which is here involved.
The table does not indicate, as perhaps it should, the fact that
the relationship between an unconscious record and an unconscious
programme is slight, while the relation between a written programme
and a written record
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