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...reforms the late 1960s and early 1970s, school councils played an important role in Victorian state schools, where they soon became mandatory. In New South Wales the Teachers' Federation blocked attempts to establish school councils in state schools until the "radical right" reforms of 1989-93; even so they remain optional.
I had an advance copy of the student's paper and prepared a three-page commentary to give to him after I had spoken. I wanted to end my comments on a sceptical note, having seen quite a few educational reform movements come and go. I believe that students should cultivate a degree of scepticism regarding structural changes. So I decided to conclude my remarks with a quotation from Petronius, which I had first encountered some twenty years before, when I was editor of Aces Review, the journal of the Australian Council for Educational Standards. A contributor had used it in an article that I published:
We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised ... I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
But I was a little worried about this quotation. Was it to be attributed to the Petronius who wrote his salacious homoerotic Satyricon about AD 67? I had at...
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