Education which seeks to give children democratic rights and coinfluence must ensure that it is possible for them to gain direct experience. Workshop education is to be arranged in such a way that pupils slowly but surely learn to manage the whole classroom work process. As we have explained above, an important part of this learning curve is the encouragement of experimentation and the requirement that pupils experience some of the consequences of working in the way they have proposed or influenced. As a way of handling the practical problems and possibilities which arise in workshop education, we have found it invaluable to apply the very same paired concepts we use in the organisation of action research method, and which we first introduced in chapter two of this book. There are six concepts and we normally see them as pairs, each pair having an individualistic (person) and a collectivistic (group) reference: