I have very fond memories of my schooling, including my five years at a high school. I think my schooling served me well. It supported my parents’ conviction that education was the pathway to a productive life and that girls needed and deserved a career. It taught me to think for myself, to analyse, organise, hypothesise, challenge, martial and test arguments. It gave me a peer group with whom I could share, trial and extend these skills as well as teachers who were role models and experts in their subject fields. My subsequent courses at Sydney University and the University of South Australia built on what I learned at school, but it was the intellectual skills and the mental discipline I acquired at high school that formed the solid foundation.