Comparative Method in Education

✍ Scribed by Ann M. Keppel

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1965
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 534 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0039-3746
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00373946

✦ Synopsis

society directly regulates the physician as it does not the physiologist. Perhaps Shoben discloses the origins of the Chekhov effect and its cure:

T~he professional, often desperate to find some way of coping with the urgent difficulties of his clientele, is very often liable to the charge of acting on the basis of grossly inadequate evidence or of being a naive empiricist who responds to the expedient or perpetuates a private mystique of well-intentioned but ill-grounded service. The member of a discipline, on the other hand, is with equal frequency vulnerable to attack because of his lack of responsiveness to human need and his cooly removed approach to the investigation of nature for its owrt sake . . . " (p. 95)