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This issue of Unicorn is entitled 'Celebrating the past, shaping the future: outcomes from the Education Assembly, 18-20 April 2001'. It is based on papers presented at the Australian Education Assembly 2001, organised by the Australian College of Education (ACE) and the Australian Council for Educational Administration (ACEA) as part of the Centenary of Federation celebrations. It contains a summary of the key propositions for the National Declaration of Education and a report of the findings which were used to draw up the Declaration. It also includes extracts from some of the papers presented at the Assembly. These are: Official opening / William Deane; Welcoming address / Mary Delahunty; Uprooting violence, growing peace: education for compassionate citizenship / Toh Swee-Hin; Education for life / Margaret Jackson; Celebrating the past, shaping the future / Jennifer Bott; Select responses / Vegjie Cari, John Roskam and Andrea Hull; The school as a national institution: a centenary perspective / Stuart Macintyre; Museums and education in the digital age / George MacDonald; Public education in a globalising world / Alan Reid; Educating the citizens: making the Commonwealth / Helen Irving; The Bachelor of Arts and the role of universities in building the Australian nation / Robert Pascoe; Are we there yet? Imagineering educational equality for Indigenous Australians / Peter Buckskin and David McRae; Collaboration: making federation work for school education / Jillian Dellit; Why boys limit musical choices / Scott Harrison; Exemplary teachers: a myth or a reality? / Dan White.