The Changing Educational Scene

Abstract

Edmund King (1966) holds that education in the modern world has experienced revolutionary changes. One of the most conspicuous changes is that education has become a public enterprise, and the state has assumed responsibility for its provision. As a result of the introduction of mass production and mechanised control to facilitate further developments, coupled with the ‘explosion of knowledge’ in the modern world, there is a demand for an expansion of education. At the same time, aspirations for education have been rising. Being ‘aneducated man’ has become increasingly a ‘normal’ expectation or even a necessity in the modern world and is no longer regarded as distinctive, distinguished or exceptional as it was in the past: