207 Feb 8 to bringing about underdevelopment of science education is to bring key people to the U.S. They will go back and work for changes. This is better than for us to try to bring about change directly. He suggests using the approach of the summer seminars (NSF) to which senior people can be brought. Ministry people in Malaya are terribly busy. Tan, for example, is cruelly overworked. There are few good people. As a result they have little time to give to curriculum reform, new ideas, etc. Deutschman said the Malay school teacher is in general not devoted to his work. He seeks every opportunity to slough it off - does the minimum to cover the syllabus. He feels it would be a great boon to the country if some philanthropic agency could print American text books, new curriculum materials or other reference works in inexpensive form. The Malayan cannot afford to buy our books. Sterling referred to the secondary school program in science as a tunnel education. The student emerges knowing the configuration of the surrounding walls but knows little beyond and desires to explore little beyond.