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'The Images of Order' presents us with a valiant and greatly appreciated work, introducing much needed operational techniques for utilizing the Boulding-Bois 'hierarchy of mental models'. I congratulate his scholarly effort. (Ethel Longstreet, Executive Director, Viewpoints Institute) Dr. David Maas has proven himself an outstanding scholar by taking Boulding's mental models and showing us how to use them as a method of inquiry. Students, researchers, and scholars should find them an excellent tool. Without Dr. Maas' interpretation, the mental models would be, to use an anatomical metaphor, a skeleton without the necessary biological processes for human functioning - or as an architectural metaphor of a house that would remain unbuilt. In other words, he has given the skeleton life and has built the house. (Dr. William J. Williams, University of Southern California) Since human learning, other than simple conditioning, involves observation, analysis, organization, and synthesis, 'The Images of Order' should provide a major contribution toward our synthesizing the meaningless fragments of our current society into an exciting and meaningful whole through a major transformation of our entire educational enterprise before it is too late. (Dr. Gerald L. Kincaid, Minnesota State Department of Education, 1959-1979)

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