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Abstract

Much as I would have liked to have accepted your Editor's invitation to reminisce over the last fifty years of personal educational activity -perhaps with special reference to the singularity of the early 1960s -it struck me that whatever I might write would be almost incomprehensibly irrelevant to the teacher in today's classroom. He, or she, seems to me to have a task infinitely more daunting in almost every respect than that which I faced when I was a schoolmaster in the 1950s, or when I was heavily engaged in the next decade with curriculum reform.