Better equipped than most teachers in a humanistic background and in a knowledge of advances in interdisciplinary study, the English teacher is well-qualified to achieve a major educational goal--to help a student acquire a disciplined attitude toward knowledge through the analysis of ideas. One method of reaching this goal is through the utilization of Richard McKeon's four-stage sequential approach to interdisciplinary study. In this plan, the student, with the guidance of the teacher, first learns how to acquire and evaluate facts; he then moves on to a creative discovery, to the presentation of his ideas, and, finally, to a systematization of his knowledge into a broad structure. Within these stages, each teacher must develop his own techniques; but if the four stages are followed in an interdisciplinary course of study, the result will tend toward the formation of an open-minded, creative, articulate, and purposive student body. (LH)