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It seems that I have been involved in education all my life. I started in first class at Ainslie Infants School in 1943, listened to my parents, both teachers, talking about the New Education Fellowship after the war, wanted to be a primary school teacher, then wanted to be a high school teacher, then wanted to be a university teacher—and became one for a time. I have talked to almost every kind of class, from kindergarten to postdoctoral to University of the Third Age (U3A), in Australia and overseas, been a school Parents and Citizens’ Association (P&C) member and continue to be a ‘grand friend’. I have helped to review a lot of Commonwealth principles and practices in education and chaired a review of school legislation in the ACT. And the longer I live, the more important I think education to be for any society.
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Aitkin, D. (2013). Educating Everybody: Properly!. In: Hughes, P. (eds) Achieving Quality Education for All. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5294-8_30
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