The National Education Conference will be of no purpose in New Zealand. The same people with the same policies will remain in power. All the good ideas will be buried under mountains of information and paper. The status quo will remain. There are only two major ways of altering policy.

1)

Removing those in power and replacing them with people with different ideas (i.e. revolution).

2)

Removing the people from power and changing the people by changing the stresses, information input and situation of these people. A slow way of doing this is to send the people in power off on sabbaticals etc — but it is slow, wasteful and of doubtful value. A rapid way of influencing attitudes of all those in power would would be to close all educational institutes for a year. The educational authorities could be sent overseas to examine foreign teaching methods and/ or with the pupils and staff could have mass criticism sessions at the educational institutes during the year.