ABSTRACT
Formal education has become a monolithic structure of proportions that it has assumed or has been assigned functions which it has virtually no capacity to perform. The adversary relationship between formal education and the family continues to strengthen. The household school encompasses all family members and addresses all roles played by each member within and without the family construct. In this context, each member, at various points in time, functions as both learner and educator throughout his life span. Learning activites conducted within the hypothetical construct of the household school concentrate on the life span learning curriculum. The transition time associated with the birth of a child includes a preparation period during which the upcoming, new role of parent. The family or primary group, which stands at the center of an ever-extending network of human relationships for most people, also stands at the center of a life-span learning process for most individuals.
