Conversation offers a situation `where each individual has an effective equality of chances to take part in dialogue; where dialogue is unconstrained and not distorted` (Smith, 2000). We see then that mutual trust, respect, a willingness to listen and to risk one’s opinions are fundamental in dialogical conversation and are thus key to the work of informal education. Moreover we can see that informal education is `a powerful regulative ideal that can orient our practical and political lives` (Bernstein 1983: 163). Informal education has thus been described as education for social change and liberation (Freire, 1970, 1985). The Woodcraft Folk, for example have described this process as `educating children to think for themselves. To examine and research the world in which they find themselves and when they grow up to find ways of changing it` (Salt and Wilson, 1985: 42).