ABSTRACT
The influence of community on the moral development of persons engaged in higher education raises not only questions of how this can be achieved but the much more fundamental question of whether it should even be attempted. The beginning of the seventies is seeing the final disappearance in the colleges of education as elsewhere, of what one might term the traditional approach to moral development through the influence of community, as these three or four basic forces give way to change. Though the phrase was not used at the time, it could be said that the purpose which the staff had identified was the moral development not simply of the students but of the whole membership of the community. The college had deliberately set aside all of the traditional ancillary means of community influence in favour of a central activity in which all were to be engaged. The community was a community of people at work.
