ABSTRACT
An increasing number of schools to deploy staff and resources in activities associated with the present or future leisure lives of their pupils. In all this we can see a simple quantitative relationship between leisure and the education services. The real nature of the activities of the education services in relation to leisure is, however, often more difficult to determine. Popularly leisure is ‘free’ time, but, of course this ‘freedom’ is circumscribed by physical circumstances, local cultural expectations and the total limitations of the individual whether of skill, education, information or aspiration. There has always been some educational interest in leisure and a growing sophistication in non-academic secondary education, stemming from the 1944 Education Act, has accelerated this interest. Education, in any real sense of the word, can never be a process which fits people for an unquestioning acceptance of drudgery.
