Science Fiction is interdisciplinary by its very nature, merging elements of science, fantasy, and popular art into an open-ended mythology shared by its creators and audience. The use of science fiction can help in making education more general, more flexible, and more relevant to possible future needs. Even at its most general level of information, in the most inept styles, science fiction can still give a personal immediacy to issues which statistics and discursive prose usually lack. To make adequate use of science fiction in the schools may require applications of the "open classroom" concept--that is, a classroom which would be "open" to the world, to the future, and to the individual student. However, interdisciplinary concerns can be introduced into many courses within the traditional curriculum, since bringing in the future can help liberate almost any subject matter. Thus, it may be possible to turn high school and college courses at all levels in the direction of relevance by making this form of literature serve extra-literary ends. (HOD)