ABSTRACT
The growing pressure of the general demand for education is nowhere as urgent as in the realm of secondary and higher education. There has been no noticeable change in the programme of European primary schools in general for a considerable time now, for they include all children of the same age which has put a limit on the possibilities of extending the scope of educational work at this level. Thus, it is in the field of secondary and higher education that a vast and dynamic development is taking place, in which ever-increasing numbers of young people are involved, and by virtue of which a variety of organizational forms of instruction are being developed and enriched. Consequently, before an answer could be given to the question what the effects of the growing demand for education at the secondary level actually are, the following point must first be elucidated: what, in fact, are secondary schools?
