ABSTRACT
I well recall my first meeting with Eric Rogers, now with feelings of fond amusement, though at the time the impact was rather different. I went to Loughborough, to a briefing conference on all three Nuffield science projects. I had of course read his Physics for the Inquiring Mind and enjoyed it. I had written to him some months before asking if he could invite a local school to take part in the physics trials. I felt that with so much mystery surrounding the project, to have a local school taking part would lessen the mystery and an attitude which bordered on hostile curiosity. He wrote back in generous terms thanking me for my ‘magnificent’ letter, but said the money to equip trial schools had been exhausted, and it brought me an invitation to Loughborough. When an H.M.I. offered to let me read the project material over 36 hours, I worked like a demon to make my own very brief précis. I found the guides good reading and, having only recently left the school classroom, I could not wait to go to the conference.
