THE IN-REPORT EDITORIAL POLICY

In a highly important but narrow sense, The IN-REPORT is written for an exceedingly small group of people (the parents of a few hundred children who are on the program of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential) by an even smaller group (a couple of dozen staff members of The Institutes in Philadelphia.


There has always existed an extremely tight bond between the parents of the children who are on the program of The Institutes and the staff. This close bond is of inestimable value to the children, the parents, and the staff. Since both the parents and the staff have always recognized the value of the bond, every effort has always been made to continue to strengthen that highly valued relationship.

The IN-REPORT began in the year 1973 as one more worthwhile means of increasing the mutual confidence, knowledge, and pleasure that exists between the children, the parents,and the staff.

The IN-REPORT serves to give parents and childrena more intimate knowledge of the staff by publishing a brief biography of one staff member in each issue in the section called Insight.

The IN-REPORT serves to keep parents abreast of the books and articles constantly being written by the staff and their many respected friends in the field of human development, as well as those which have been written previously. As new things are written they will be reviewed and reported.

Most important of all and the primary reason for the publication of The IN-REPORT is to keep parents informed of precisely what is happening to the children on the program both from their own group and from other groups; in short, to keep them aware of precisely what victories are being accomplished by the kids. That section,reporting on victories, the heart of The IN-REPORT, is called appropriately enough-Victories. To the parents of children being seen at The Institutes it is obviously of prime importance.

These victories are, to the knowledge of the editorial staff, the only figures being published in the world on what actually happened to a group of children under treatment.

If other groups are publishing the figures of what is happening to a group of children under treatment, the editor would be delighted to know about it so that those figures could be published here also to provide a standard of comparison.

In a larger sense The IN-REPORT is of vital importance to many millions of children the world over and to their parents, for The IN-REPORT and The Institutes from which this report originates are a vitally important microcosm of the entire world.

For every child that The Institutes elects to accept, there are ten thousand like children that The Institutes cannot see and still maintain the extraordinary quality of relationship that exists with the children being seen.

The Institutes and the victories the parents and their children are achieving do not represent the way things are in the world (except for a tiny group of a few hundred children being seen by The Institutes in the United States and by The Institutes in Brazil) but they do represent the way things might be for millions of children the world over.

That makes The IN-REPORT an extremely important little archive indeed, to virtually all people of all nations. It has no pretensions to being literature in any sense,but it is a unique archive in the finest sense.


GLENN DOMAN, Founder
THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL