Education can be conceived both retrospectively and prospectively. It can be treated as a process of accommodating the future to the past, and as a utilization of the past for a resource in a developing future. Basic to adaptability is the development of good habits of thinking. Using these methods, students have a genuine situation of experience and continuous activity in which they are interested for its own sake. Genuine problems are developed within this situation as a stimulus to thought.
Students use prior information and make observations needed to deal with the problems.
Suggested solutions occur to the students which they responsibly develop in an orderly way. Students then have the opportunity to apply their ideas in order to clarify them and test their validity. The above philosophy guided the development of the following criteria for curricular decisions and course development in the technical, professional and post-professional programs. The students' level of education and life experience is considered and assimilated into the educational process. The order of courses accounts for continuity both horizontally and longitudinally.