ABSTRACT

In More’s Utopia, schooling is universally available, offering a ‘modern’ kind of education. By ‘modern’, I mean that for the sixteenth century, it is an up-to-the-minute and ahead-of-its time-education. It is also a distinctively radical and innovative, providing opportunities to learn that go well beyond the ‘basics’, embracing personal and social development and openings to pursue extra-curricular activities.