Goodlad would bring the learner-centered curriculum and the subject-centered curriculum into balance, commenting: Much recent and current controversy over the curriculum centers on the question of what kind and how much attention to give learners and subject matter, respectively. The prospect of stressing one to the exclusion of the other appears scarcely worthy of consid- eration. Nonetheless, the interested observer has little difficulty finding school practices emphasizing one component to the impoverishment of the other.