Introduced by David Dimbleby
What's happening in our schools? And what should be? And should schools happen?

With historical assistance from Plato, Leo Tolstoy, The Amazing McMillan Sisters, Tom Brown, Various Living Notables, and of course Children
With film reports from:
Richard Lindley on today's France (Where they order things differently), Russia (Where it's even more different), Leeds and Leicester

And an examination of Nursery Education:
'Parentes and maisters should be familiarly linked in amitie, and contynual conference for their common care.' (Richard Mulcaster: 17th century)

Primary Schools:
'I don't know, Ma'am, why they make all this fuss about education. None of the Pagets can read, and they get on well enough.' (Lord Melbourne to Queen Victoria: 19th century)

Secondary Education:
'In his shop, or his office, in managing his estate or his family... (a man) is very little aided by this knowledge he took so many years to acquire...'
(Herbert Spencer: 19th century)
'Is it any... use at all?' (School Leaver: 1972)

(Where the learning begins: pages 10-20)