Learning, therefore, is an existential process it is almost coterminous with life itself: it begins in finishes as we approach death. Learning begins with sense experience and is both individual and social, and we begin our social learning through innitauon. At the same time, we acknowledge the nature-nurture debate is an important one and that we have both an evolutionary and a social history. Conformity is, therefore, one of the natural outcomes of learning, although we recognize from the outset the need to resist it sometimes, and so it is necessary to see the significance of critical learning to resist the power inherent in group structures to force But we. also recognize that the society which we live is changing rapidly, and so the next chapter examines that rapidly changing context within.