UNESCO REGIONAL SEMINAR AT WELLINGTON 1–26 FEBRUARY, 1960 by S. M. MEAD The Unesco Seminar in session. From left: the Korean delegate, Mr W. N. Suhr, Mr S. M. Mead, the author of this article, Mrs P. Hattaway, Editor of School Publications, Mr R. Champman-Taylor, Curriculum Officer, Education Department. (N.P.S. PHOTOGRAPH). The UNESCO Seminar is now over. The delegates who come from 25 nations have returned to their home knowing a little more about New Zealand and its people, than they did before they came. I have returned to my small corner in Waimarama, knowing a lot more about these other nations than what I knew, when I ventured forth to the city to attend the seminar. A conference of this type is truly an educator in itself. New friendships were made, one's horizons were forced to expand beyond the confines of the little box which comprises our own personal world; and, knowing more about the other fellow, we can appreciate his problems and perhaps be more ready to offer a helping hand, when required of us. We lived together for three weeks—a mixture of nationalities, of languages, of colour and of personalities, welded together by similar problems. This meant eating together and talking, working together and talking, relaxing together and talking, travelling and talking. Talking about our respective peoples; discussing language problems, translation problems; differences in culture, in climate; discussing school publications; finding ways and means of giving each other more accurate and less biased information about our respective countries, and all the time drawing closer together until the moment for departure which came all too soon and like the seed of the thistle each delegate flew away. (Continued on page 52)