ABSTRACT
There is a marked contrast in the two situations in the role of the young. Sibley points out the usual deference given to elders in Filipino village society and the difficulties of the young in influencing their elders. There is no doubt that in practically all peasant societies age is deferred to and that the ability of young people to influence their elders is limited. Established by the Philippine Department of Education after the second World War, the Community School program of adult education and community development was designed to ameliorate levels of living in the thousands of small, rural Philippine villages. Kinship is reckoned bilaterally. In work teams, and in power groupings associated with community affairs, kin-based structures with some continuity in time are observable. During 1953, the year immediately preceding my fieldwork in Ma-ayo, the six teachers of the elementary school established Community School development sections, or zones.
