ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses what is the most problematic for a modern educational system. It is primarily the change in the role of knowledge that underlies the huge change in the scope of access to education. The relationship between education and the economy has become a reciprocal one, with dependency running in both directions. The points system is the most clear-cut line at which education meets up with the socio-economic system. The fact that the selection process occurs only when post-primary schooling is already completed does not prevent it from having a huge effect on the nature and significance of school experience itself. Equity may be granted to be a necessary corollary of any ultimately defensible education. The chapter stresses that education should indeed equip people to address their present society – and of course the shape of their own lives within this society.
