Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This should not be too difficult, he says, because the modern college teacher is crippled by "devotion to competence in some field of specialized research" and "undue magnification of the scientific method and its latest findings...
...principal work of the Littauer School, then, is carried on in seminars and research projects. The seminars, participated in by graduate students, Faculty members, and government experts, are not intended to serve as a method of instruction, but as a process of mutual learning, approaching problems of government administration with the attitude of "We don't know what the answer is, but we will use every available device to find...
...wholly impossible to realize. While the School's work is fundamentally experimental, the lines of development are clearly definable. Dean Williams has stated them in these words: "What we are seeking to do is not to find a new content in public administration but a new and more effective method of work which will draw not only the various branches of the social sciences nearer together but also the university and the public service...
...Method...
Landis further advised that the student pursue science to gain some conception of the scientific method, both as regards its possibilities and its limits. Lastly he urged some training that would lead the student back to original sources so that he lose complete reverence for the period page...