ABSTRACT
States need citizens and citizens are created, not born. States can only survive if they have a citizenry adequate to their nature and ends, and education is the principal tool for the creation of citizens. Thus, education is a 'program for social survival' (Walzer, 1983, p. 197). Further, as Michael Walzer adds, education 'is always relative to the society for which it is designed'. Here Walzer selfconsciously follows Aristotle, who observed:
The citizen should be moulded to suit the fonn of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally fonned and which continues to preserve it ... (Aristotle, The Politics, 1337," 10-19).
