ABSTRACT
The institutional line, pre-school, community school, community college meets the chronological point, and provides a mesh of agencies which could, vitally and properly organised, narrow the huge gaps at present existing in educational provision. The school and college, reformed along lines of individual choice with a community orientation, could rightly be seen as an important aspect of community development and the movement towards a participatory democracy. The critical characteristic would be the singularity of administrative contact for the parents and teachers running the schools and colleges. The lesson of administrative history sorrowfully teaches of a most fertile procreation of officers and agents. The education committee might then consist of fifteen councillors, one for each ward or 'community', the fifteen community education officers, representing officer and teacher opinion, and fifteen nominees from the lay members of each education board, which, with the authority's chief officers and representatives of the teachers' unions would give an education committee of some fifty-five members.
