The Fourth R
Abstract
Section IVThe Fourth R SAGE Publications, Inc.1945DOI: 10.1177/019263654502913021 H.H.Giles Bureau for Intercultural Education, New York City THE head of a great business enterprise in a New England state once told me that most of his time was spent in preventing or settling conflicts among his executive officers. An eminent surgeon, asked what was the first requirement for success in his work replied, "Personality." Industries, like Western Electric, have found that the establishment of counseling service, with trained "listeners" who spend all their time hearing the hopes and troubles of shop workers has a marked effect for good production and less absenteeism. Iry these cases in the competitive world of business, industry and the professions, it has been found that the ability to understand and get along with other people is basic and profitable. In the junior high school, there have been a number of kinds of effort to aid personal adjustments. The home room was instituted to take the curse off the greater impersonality of departmentalized work, following on elementary experience where one class and one teacher came to know each other well. Unfortunately, the home room itself is often only one more department, with twenty minutes or