ABSTRACT
Educational theory has recently become a fertile soil for a form of belief which, for all its apparent affinities with the doctrine of social adaptation, is in fact quite different in quality. The fundamental tenet of the doctrine of social transformation is that all barriers between human beings must be destroyed. As with most doctrines, its source can be found in a common human mood, and for an expression of this mood we cannot do better than quote the young Engels. The doctrine of social transformation, then, first appeared as one of the moods in which political thinkers sought to replace 'Authority' by 'Reason'. The notion of some divinely pre-established harmony between academic passion and talent on the one hand, and any sociological mapping of a society is an evident postulate of the faith required for social transformation.
