This study purports to ascertain the degree or extent of the success and failure of the community activities of the Presidential Arm on Community Development, Bureau of Public Schools and the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement in carrying out their educational programs in 1970s. Participant observation, personal interviews and library research were the methods used in gathering data and information in the undertaking. The thesis ended with a conclusion that the core of community development program is a deep commitment to the principle that development is distinctly a local responsibility. This means that the people in the barrio must take the responsibility of articulating and solving their problems and needs, and of formulating ways and means of executing development programs.