Survey - What Happened at Oruaiti

If I was squashed it would feel funny and an ambulance would have to come. Blood would be coming out of you and you would have to go to hospital.

– Two children observing a steamroller

It must be here, real and now to have meaning to a child. There should be less standardisation and mechanisation in the making of people.

– Elwyn Richardson, on how to educate

It's just a little more real than from a textbook learning. A process that you weren't aware of that was occurring. It was just naturally happening, and this is of course the best way to learn.

– A former Hay Park School student reflects on her time at the school