ABSTRACT
One of the most important changes in the educational field seems to be the gradual change from the compartmental concept of education, as it prevailed in the age of laissez-faire, to the integral concept. Education was a compartment because the school and the world had become two categories not complementary but rather opposed to each other. The integral theory of education, in its sociological aspects, does not object to that theory as such; it does not doubt the fact that some ideals may be stated which survive the ages and are the basis of any decent way of life and social organization. Fortunately, during the last decades a great deal of knowledge has been accumulated in various branches of psychology and sociology. Sociology in terms of a thorough survey will still be necessary in such an age of change, but the gist of its contribution will consist in a search into new direction of events and into their new requirements.
