Schooling: More or Less is a book of exceptional importance to all Australians. It deserves to be widely read and quoted and to thus obtain an influential place amongst the select group of educational works that have influenced the course of events for generations. A work of great originality and essential simplicity, it addresses itself directly to the task of devising a ‘schooling system that would take into account what we know about individuals and the sort of life we must cope with in the next twenty years.