ABSTRACT
How difficult it is to resist the temptation of overloading the time-table! There has to be some ruthless rejection of important studies to avoid what Sir Richard Livingstone has stigmatised as “the bursting portmanteau”. The authors of the McNair Report were very conscious of the dilemma that confronts those who plan these courses. They recognised, on the one hand, the great responsibilities of teachers in present-day society. “Every teacher,” they observe, “in however humble a capacity he or she may be serving, is directly and vocationally involved in moulding the shape of things to come”. Planning with a view to a better way of life will be a frequent cause or occasion of such issues, and if time can be found for thought and discussion about planning the student will be better equipped to form a sound opinion on them.
