The underlying theme for Burton and Brueckner was for supervisors to provide both technical and personal help to teachers in an effort to increase their understanding and improve their teaching practice. This effort, in turn, would support the' ultimate purpose of supervision which in their view was “the promotion of pupil growth and hence eventually the improvement of society.” Burton and Brueckner and most of the writers who followed brought to their work a human relations perspective which incorporated some features of human resources thinking. Critics of this view then and now are concerned that human relations approaches do not give sufficient attention to accountability. They point, eat that accountability is part of any professional endeavor and this concern is rightly a part of supervision-a view with which we agree.