ABSTRACT
Granted that important reservation, it might still be profitable to erect a general outline of community development, in part as a sounding-board for discussion and in part as a frame of reference for reform. Social provision is a circular business. Community education should enable people to make more effective choices and take more efficient action about an economy, a retail system, a transport service, a welfare programme and all the other socio-economic agencies which should be permitting them to participate more fully; as these more competent skills come into play, so, in turn, should the education institutions grow in wisdom and stature. In a sense, the form of community development is not so important as its attitude. Two elements have been earmarked as of chief emphasis: first, the 'concentric circle' counter to the oscillations of the central-local dichotomy; and second, the replacement of representative government by popular government.
