ABSTRACT
In Britain the boundary between the education system and the community is still a strong one, no doubt for complex historical reasons. A secondary school's links with the community are most naturally with the parents of the pupils. A. H. Halsey's proposals are curiously school-centred, ignoring the important developments in the most impressive community colleges, which are bringing together schools, adult education and the youth service on shared premises. Community schools and colleges should organize by level, but in practice there is still a very low degree of age integration in these institutions. The central principles in community education have little to do with labels; they can be put into practice without reference to labels. Centralization is deeply inimical to the principles of community education and to community control of educational institutions, and the community education movement is powerless to resist the tide of centralization. The anarchist and the community educator share the conviction that the urge to self-management.
