Introduction

Questions about education and leisure are inevitably bound up with questions about the sort of society we live in and that to which we aspire. Such questions cannot be ‘answered’ but consideration of them must increasingly concern and involve all who work in schools, youth service and adult education. The work of the Schools Council is beginning to have an impact on the curriculum and style of work in secondary schools. An increasing number of schools are experimenting with school leaver courses and are looking towards developments of this work with the raising of the school leaving age. In many areas the concept of the community school is being translated into reality, though rarely as much of a reality as those at the heart of such ventures would wish. Despite the lavishly equipped, palatial Adult Education Centre twenty miles away, the total reality of locally available adult education may well be flower arranging at the local primary school.