ABSTRACT
The achievement of independence by the states of the Third World in the years following the Second World War led to their tremendous and continuing efforts to develop systems of education capable of aiding their technological and economic modernization and of preparing their people autonomously to control their new political machinery. Inevitably, it would seem, in those circumstances the developing countries looked to the more developed countries for models, not only of economic and political systems but also of education systems, and by and large made efforts to study existing systems and adapt them to their needs. We can now see that in many cases educational provision appropriate to the developed countries was inappropriate to the developing countries.
