At the request of teachers in final classes of Waldorf Schools Dr. Conrad Mainzer, London, compiled a number of passages taken from modern authors (Laurens van der Post, Martin Luther King, Bertrand Russell, G. Baraclough, T. S. Eliot, Owen Barfield and others) on various aspects of life today. These can provide a basis for comparison or form a background for use with passages from current publications, cuttings from newspapers etc. and can become a real student's workbook. There are no word explanations, as students have by now learnt how to use a dictionary.