ABSTRACT
In the most unlikely scenario, primary education remains relatively undisturbed as the first stage in a three-stage system of education – primary, secondary and a more expanded further education stage, much as was envisaged in the 1944 Education Act. Following the teenage schooling and the community service phase, students would advance into higher education. They might do so only after a period of several years of paid employment or, after a substantial period of leisure. To a large extent, the changes in both objectives and approach will be a product of the new technology. The impact will involve the displacement of printed information storage and retrieval systems by electronic ones. Just as an industrial society needs a strong, though not dominant, agriculture, so a post-industrial society needs highly efficient manufacturing and primary industries. The main objective of a programme would be to break the school routine, to mature the students by introducing attitudes of discipline, group integration, and community service.
