Abstract:
The school is an institution responsible for certain specialized services involved in inducting the young into social life. The school can never transmit the entire intellectual and social heritage. Choices must always be made about the
knowledge to be transmitted, the intellectual and practical skills to be developed and the values to be stressed.
These choices tend to be made according to values that prevail in society; those values that are dominant will be expressed in choices about purpose and programs of the school.