Different generations have different opportunities for education: ALAN (aged 15): ... I'd leave - do farming ...
DEBBIE (15): ... If I said I'd got 60 per cent. Grandad would probably think that was terrible. mean if he used to get 90, I'd feel a bit daft ......
DENNIS clifton (77): ... when I was 12 and-a half the exam for the secondary school came along. I'd a good chance of a scholarship. My father said, ' You can tell 'im tha's goin' to t'pit. We want brass....'
IRENE BURTON (née Clifton): Dad said I must pass the 11 plus, my teachers said I'd pass ... I stared at the paper, and when he asked how I'd done I dare not tell him
Leslie Smith talks to three generations of a Yorkshire family, and others, to get a picture of changing attitudes to education on the part of some of its consumers. Interspersed are comments from head teachers, and Professor W. D. Wall of The Institute of Educacation, London University. Producer BARBARA crowther