Patrick Geddes expresses his dissatisfaction with The Educational Reform Conference, which in his opinion focused too much on administrative matters related to the creation of an Association, rather than on the actual topics of education and reform. Geddes feels that the politicians appointed to lead the Association do not have enough technical or scientific knowledge to truly reform education. Mentions Richard Burdon Haldane, Robert Lowe, J.M. White, F.W.Young, F.G.Ogilvie, Sir G. Pullar, Lord Reay, Lord Elgin, Miss Stevenson, Stanley Hall, John Dewey, Rein, Liard, Lalique, Rodin, Graham Bell, Picard, Reclus, and Ernest Lavisse.