Ronald C. Doll looked at balance from the learner's standpoint and described it as follows: A balanced curriculum for a given learner at a given time would completely fit the learner in terms of his or her particular educational needs at that time. It would contain just enough of each kind of subject matter to serve the individual's purposes and to speed his or her de- velopment. General balance in the curriculum can be partly achieved, in the sense that cer- tain kinds of experiences can be planned for large groups of learners according to what we know about them and about the subject matter they might learn.... Perhaps the best that can be done in working toward balance is to be clearer about what is valued for the growth of individual learners and then to apply these values in selecting curriculum content, group- ing pupils for instruction, providing for articulation, and furthering guidance programs.