In this book, Dr. Heyting recommends that schools be abolished. On her way to that recommendation she claims that schools are the cause of growing youth problems, including unemployment, drug abuse, crime, and violence. In place of schooling she proposes rescue houses for children up to 10 years old, and learning related to jobs that all youngsters would be required to undertake in the adult world after 10 years of age. Each individual would choose a course of study based on interest, aptitude, and involvement at the workplace. Instructional programmes would be computerized and available to all through learning/information centres. The book is hopelessly Eurocentric in its orientation, selectively biased in its presentation of findings on the effect of schooling, doctrinaire in its postures against schooling, and naive in its proposed alternative to schooling. These could easily obscure many of Dr. Heyting's perceptive and insightful analyses of defects in schooling in various sections of this work. By exaggerating and overstating many of her arguments, she becomes unconvincing in several of her conclusions.