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Prefatory note : This paper was originally written under another title as part of a conference programme, and is now reprinted by kind permission of the Editor of "Social Work" (the UK journal of this name) who first published it in Vol. XXVI No. 4 1969. It is not intended to imply (as some readers have thought) that it is enough for social workers to understand the individual, even within his family and his sub- cultural setting. Clearly the social worker also needs a knowledge of society per se, its power structure, its administrative structure and its economic system; a knowledge of the processes of social change, of how to intervene effectively to relieve economic, social and educational deprivation; and, I would add, some skill in predicting the unintended side-effects of such intervention. However, in what follows we are concerned with that element in the education of social workers which is concerned with human personality and interaction, whether within the family, the small group or the community.