The elements of the discipline here described are best seen as points at which to develop characters, making them into characters thus empowered to meet the numberless occasions of decision and choice which will confront them today and tomorrow, characters aimed directly and effectively toward an improved human community. The discipline of practical intelligence is rightly a discipline of human characters.

Uncoercive measures can be added to the measures of force. They are being added, and new leaders disciplined in methods that better combine the coercive and the uncoercive measures are coming to replace those who can only coerce. This is the need of practical intelligence in every social relationship. The goal is an uncoerced acceptance.

The questions considered in this article are: How can a form of practical discipline be developed in the schools? What kind of instruction will be most likely to promote it?

LAST SUMMER THE OPEN ROAD, IN CONJUNCTION with the Tennessee Valley Authority, the University of Tennessee and Northwestern University, conducted a five-week seminar for the study of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the region and regional planning. A great variety of books and other materials which dealt with the various aspects of the region and of the Authority were supplied. Conferences were arranged with the different departments of the Authority and with groups of farmers, business men, educational leaders and other citizens of the valley. Field trips were planned which enabled the seminar to see at first hand the impact of the program and policies of the Authority upon the life of the region.