Today schools are inescapably, though not deliberately, involved in moral education and teachers are significant agents in facilitating moral thinking and moral conduct. If teachers themselves think and speak and act at levels recognizably below those to which they must lead their students, then structures and processes must be found to promote 'the moral point of view' as an integral part of teacher education, school practice and organization.

It is generally accepted that in the United States and other modern industrial societies there is a link between formal schooling (number of years of formal education) and social mobility, though some scholars such as Anderson, Blau and Duncan, and Jencks have disputed the strength of this link.

Queens Royal College is a well known institution in Trinidad. This College came into existence in 1870 as a replacement for Queens Collegiate School, founded in 1859. This latter school was founded by the government with the social and political purpose of spreading English culture in an island racially and religiously divided, and culturally complex. A bridge to the English Universities was established through scholarships which were later won by many eminent Trinidadians.