The teacher is pivotal to learning in this way in school. But to what extent are teachers themselves educated to become citizens in the way described in Crick Report? In Britain, teachers are increasingly expected to teach citizenship and values both in and through the curriculum. From September 2000 this will be required by law, with each subject area stating specifically how citizenship and values will be represented within the discipline. This presents teacher with a considerable task and responsibility: they must educate for citizenship, when they may themselves have had no formal training in either citizenship or values. This makes it difficult to set the responsibility for education for citizenship solely on the school and the teachers within them. Although active citizenship is clearly a desirable goal, involvement in community groups requires a sense of civic responsibility and political skill. Both can be promoted in school, but for teacher and pupil alike a learning ethos is required.