For many generation the sole purpose of education was to transmit values, knowledge and skills which the adult world recommended to, or forced on, young people, in order to incorporate them in its society; hence, education could be wholly included in the State's duties towards its citizens, the schoolmaster's transmission of knowledge to his pupils and the child's relationship with its parents in the family. The present-day world no longer warrants this confidence of a by gone age. If it be our hope at once to fulfil the promises of democracy and to establish man firmly in the scientific and technical revolution, both now and in the future, education cannot be entrenched within any particular social classes or age groups, or be divided up into independent levels or streams; nor can it be reduced to a mere matter of State grants and family traditions.