In fact, Williams does distinguish between two strands of public educator, as Young (1971a) indicates. These are the democratic social reformists endorsing 'education for all', which largely correspond to the progressive educator group, and the populist/proletarian activists pressing for relevance, choice and participation in education, who have much in common with the modern, more radical public educators. Thus although the progressive educators are not distinguished by Williams as such, it could be said that they are prefigured in his analysis.