- Considers existing provisions and future development of educational programs and the organisation of secondary education in Tasmania.

- Makes a series of recommendations for schools and for the administration, as well as setting out general principles for the system.

- Illustrates the transition from school to work as a 'process'.
Favours a 'balanced curriculum' and a 'core curriculum' of six broad areas of activity: language, mathematics, gaining insights into the physical environment, gaining insights into the social and cultural environment, experience in the arts and crafts, and a consideration of the problems of humanity that concern and puzzle adolescents.