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The article offers the author's insights on the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA) conferences with Richard Peters. The author cites that attending conferences in Australia and New Zealand such as those in Adelaide and Christchurch, respectively, were rewarding and satisfying in terms of academic and society. He says that he was influenced much by Kevin Harris' scrutiny on the linguistic approach to Philosophy of Education in a 1976 conference. He comments that the quality of papers in 2007 Wellington conference was less of congeniality than the previous conferences he was associated with. He adds that maybe competition is damaging collegiality and lowering the standards. He concludes that his 40-year experience with PESA personalities was valuable.

This paper was first presented at the thirteenth conference of the Eco politics Association of Australasia, held at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 29 November-2 December 2001. The theme of the conference was ‘Green Governance: From Periphery to Power’. This article was included in Ecopolitics, vol. 1, no. 3, and is reprinted here by kind permission of the publisher, the Pluto Press of Sydney, and of the editor, Martin Mulligan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]