| Sumario: | This article examines the history and nature of the special system of education employed for the show children of Queensland in Australia. Although no systematic comparison has been made, anecdotal evidence from both teachers and parents suggests strongly that the show children's academic attainments are equivalent of children participating in conventional schooling experiences. This suggests two things about those conventional schooling experiences. The first is that the lack of such experiences does not lead automatically to a situation of turbulence or educational dysfunction associated with regularly moving from one school to another. The second is that sitting in a single classroom or remaining at the same school for most of one's formal schooling is not necessarily the ideal context for effective learning experiences. One very obvious difference between itinerant and mainstream children is the former's lack of apparent stability in terms of time and space. Mainstream children have desks at school and at home, storage lockers, and other paraphernalia of conventional schools.
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