ABSTRACT
In June, 1970, after eighty days of debate, the Spanish Parliament passed a comprehensive Education Act, which has been described as the most impressive turning-point in educational strategy ever reached in Spain. Following the publication of a self-critical White Paper edited by Governmental experts with the aid of foreign brains, a Parliamentary Commission examined more than 13,000 suggestions put forward in the course of a lengthy period of open discussions regarding one of the country's most controversial issues. Included among the other issues at stake were tension between government-run and private schools, the relative rights of the State, the Church and the consumer, the struggle against illiteracy and discrimination, and fundamental questions of ideology.
