The Quest, 1, 10, 1/4/1933, 10. Full information on sources for the accounts of Quest Haven and Koornong is provided in Petersen, R. C., “Experimental Schools and Educational Experiments in Australia, 1906–1948”. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Sydney, 1968, Chapters 9, 10.
2.
Personal communication from Mrs. Dorothy Irwin of South Perth, W.A., dated April 10, 1969. Mrs. Irwin corrected the account of Quest Haven in my thesis, at several points.
3.
Stow, Joanne Dorothy. “Progressive American Education and the Schools of New South Wales, 1905–1945”, unpublished M.Ed. essay, University of Sydney, 1970, 116, 119.
FreudS.Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. N.Y.: Washington Square, 1952, 209(13th lecture).
6.
Irwin communication.
7.
Irwin communication.
8.
Irwin communication.
9.
Quest Haven New Education School (Prospectus). Sydney: Towe Prs., n.d., (3), (5).
10.
Nobody seems to know the exact date of closing. There are no records later than 1939, but 1940 seems too early for fear of invasion. I have not been able, nor has Miss Joanne Stow, who has allowed me to profit from her own careful research into the history of Quest Haven, to discover more than is in this paragraph.
11.
FerrièreA.L'Ecole nouvelle et le Bureau International des Ecoles Nouvelles. No bibliographical details: circa 1923. My translation.
12.
(Koornong School). A Progressive School. Adelaide: Hunkin Ellis King Prs., n.d., but 1946, 10.
13.
For Melbourne Girls' Grammar under Miss Ross, seeCunninghamK. S.RossDorothy J.An Australian School at Work. Melbourne: A.C.E.R., 1967.
14.
In 1946 Nield wrote that “from our experience, it does not seem likely that there will be any movement to establish private progressive schools despite a considerable demand for broadly the sort of education sketched in the preceding pages”. (Koornong School). 16. He was right, so far as the subsequent two decades were concerned.
