A major premise of this study is that schools are organised not only to help teachers teach, but also to help children to learn. A review of Bruner's Theory of the Will to Learn, and assuming the Will to Learn is common to all children, suggests that there is a similar capacity for learning in tribal Aboriginal children. This supposition was tested and it was found that tribal Aboriginal children possess a very strong will and desire to learn. The study was carried out in North East Arnhem Land and is based on data collected from five Aboriginal outstation communities. A central settlement school was administratively responsible for the educational programmes and servicing of the outstation schools, and for their subsequent development as they were established. The problem examined is how to organise the administration of the central school in order to meet effectively the growing educational needs of both the main settlement and the developing outstation schools. The latter task forms the major problem investigated in this study. It was established that the outstation communities regard their schools as an important part of their lifestyle and actively support their operation. The implications for the central settlement school, its principal and staff are challenging. The existing administrative organisation was established to meet the needs of the central settlement; the task has changed, and is now much more complex and requires a far more flexible approach than that for which it was originally designed.