The public educators represent a radical reforming tradition, concerned with democracy and social equity. Their is ' education for all ', to empower the working classes to participate in the democratic institutions of society, and to share more fully in the prosperity of modern industrial society. Williams argues that this sector has been successful in securing the extension of education to all in modern British (and Western ) society, as a right ( through an alliance with the industrial trainers ). Thus, the public educators can be seen as lying behind the modern comprehensive school movement. However other interest groups, especially the industrial trainers, have been successful in having a major impact on the educational aims of schooling, and on the means of achieving them.