ABSTRACT
Over many years of educational debate, the efforts of government and professionals to define the role of education and to make it more relevant to the twenty-first century have been gaining momentum. The recent pace was set in the Great (educational) Debate, launched by the then Prime Minister, James Callaghan, in 1977. For most children, the business of schooling has continued despite this controversy with relatively few complications. Schools have continued their core business of developing well-adjusted young people fit to take their place in the world. In so doing, schools provide their pupils with a unique set of indelible memories and values, some not so good but mostly good.
