The purpose of this study is to find out the influence of Home Economics learning on the recognition and attitude of middle school boy s home life and to suggest the basic materials for the development of the Home Economics education through students opinion of Home Economics. For this purpose, a survey was conducted in Cheong-ju area using questionaire. The subjects were 487boys who studied Home Economics (HE group) and 480boys who studied Technique (T group) in middle school. The statistics used for data analysis were t-test and x²-test. The results of this study were as follows: 1. The recognition and attitude to home life on the base of the general characteristics of home life; In urban area, the interests in bealth and the role of the consumers were higher than those of rural areas-on the bases of the standard of life, hte middle class students had a higher interest in nutrition and food habits, the students whose father were engaged in special job had a higher interest in health and nutrition. 2. The difference of the recognition and attitude between HE & groups; In the field of food life, HE s knowlege about the six nutrients and the basic food groups and attitude toward buying food were higher than T s. In the field of family life and resources, HE and T accepted the importance of family life and the role of home as importanct, hoped to get psychological relax from home and to take the right sexual education. In the field of clothes life, HE and T had the general tendency to have their clothes in proper manner and to select their clothes for themselves, but HE took a higher interest in clothes mending and the role of clothes. 3. The opinions on Home Economics; HE answered that Home Economics was useful to them (more than 90% of HE) and that 57.1% of HE were interested in Home Economics. The order of interest among three fields were as following: food life, clothes life, family life and resources. 71.9% of T hoped to take Home Economics course.