Feb. 10 Developed country as framework to have the binding influence that uniform standards of education would help to bring. There would be strong objection to the kind of experimentation I described because such a premium is placed on meeting the questions prescribed. The Catholics are especially efficient in covering all loopholes. They examine past examinations, check all books ever used, ask for advice what books may be used. They may start students many years in advance on certain topics, knowing that in the end they will be on the exam., in the hope that they can get their students through. Dickson tries very hard to come up with new questions and the examinations become a game between the teachers and examiners, each trying to outwit the other. The Catholics would be opposed to the program I describe and would, as they have with other efforts to bring change, try to impede it; Dickson thinks. The reason there is such a drive toward passing the exams. is that success can mean a government job or other favored position. It can mean the difference between a quibbling existence and living well. I described the experiment on sorting time in seeds, described in the "guidelines," and asked if questions could not be devised to test the ability of the student to proceed scientifically to get an answer to a question. One might say, 'If you