ABSTRACT
As a very new head of an infant school I received a visitor who also wanted to interview me, saying he was a researcher for a committee which was set up under the chairmanship of Lady Plowden. He was interested to learn my views on the most effective ways in which young children learn, and also that he would like to return regularly to observe and ask further questions. I did not know at this juncture that I was about to be a very small part of another important part of history.
