Summary of pupil influence – study of pupil influence on traditional and flexible learning. Examination paper by Stefan Ohlsson The society and the school that is a part of the same are constantly changing. Nowadays, we are talking about a flexible schooling instead of the traditional. What does these ideas mean and do they have any affect on the pupils influence? The purpose of this examine is to explain what traditional and flexible learning are and also to make a comparison between these two teaching methods from the perspective of pupil democracy. Also trying to see in what kind of schooling the pupils think they have the biggest possibility to exercise influence on the kind and the substance of the education. The overarching issue of this research that this examine has tried to answer is: In which of the two kinds of schooling does the pupils think that they can exercise influence most? The examine is based on various kinds of literature considering flexible and traditional learning and also literature considering the issues of school democracy. Further more the examine is based on a quantitative study made by opinion poll on a upper secondary school and an adult education school somewhere in the middle of Sweden. The conclusion drawn from what is presented and the answer to the overarching question is that the pupils at an adult education school, where flexible learning is used, feel they have bigger possibility to exercise influence on the activities in school, than those pupils in the upper secondary school, where traditional learning is used.