Simon believes that the ultimate goal for his teaching should be to advance the rationality of his students. He teaches by requiring them to study his subject as organized bodies of knowledge and by assisting them to develop the skill of reasoning critically through observation and experimentation. He continues to take courses so that he will be able to demonstrate relationships among all fields

of knowledge. Simon's philosophy is rooted in

A) existentialism.
B) idealism.
C) pragmatism.
D) realism.


D

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