ABSTRACT
Those of us who have been concerned with 'community education' have amassed a considerable amount of descriptive literature about how the community school might operate. Both the theoretical implications and the present state of practical experimentation has had fair coverage in book form and through the media. The goal of the national education system and of its local counterparts, should be, in my view, to give each individual child and adult a full and continuing opportunity to realise his or her best self, both as an individual and as an active participant in the social, economic and cultural life of the community. The life-style of a person and a community, eventually of a region and a nation, should rest principally on the choices made by that person and community. Education should ensure the choices are as informed as possible, for democracy is about informed, not just any old, choices.
