The current fashion for conductive education has created a furore in the world of education . . . We have seen the creation of three new organisations aimed at furthering it, television programmes...

The current fashion for conductive education has created a furore in the world of education . . . We have seen the creation of three new organisations aimed at furthering it, television programmes extolling its virtues, demonstrations at the House of Commons, picketing of the Spastics Society . . . it claims to be a method of enabling the motor impaired ‘to function in society without requiring special apparatus such as wheelchairs, ramps or other artificial aids’. Well yes, but don’t we all use artificial aids of one kind or another: try eating your dinner without a knife or fork or going to Australia without an aeroplane . . .