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But when advocates in education work to conserve effective schools and educational practices and to protect them from rash experiments, such educational conservationists are often dismissed as standpatters, foes of progress.

Both standpatters and reformists coexist in the DPJ, too.

It is ill-advised to wait as the system deteriorates at an increasingly rapid rate until the crisis that the Study Committee described becomes apparent to even the standpatters of today.