Drawing upon some organizing principles for comparative education is the basis for this discussion of its development over the past quarter century. Emphasizes parallels between education and other people-serving programs and underlines the potential gains from a combined cross-cultural and cross-program comparison. (Author/RK)

There is increasing evidence that what we call civic education embraces only a part of the influences operating on a people, and may well be among the less important. There are a number of practical obstacles to the success of civic education in political socialization. The multifunctionality that allows schools to have so many favorable effects,…

This paper considered the usefulness of the preponderantly 'manpower requirements' premises relied upon by the Committee, judgments made about present and prospective distribution of education among different age groups and status levels in Sweden and some implications of proposals for spatial and administrative reorganization of higher education.…