ABSTRACT
I started this book by reversing the title of a British Government White Paper, Teaching Quality. I end with a reversal of one of T.S.Eliot’s best known lines. I suggest that both Eliot’s original (from ‘East Coker’, Four Quartets) and my version are apposite to the study and practice of teaching. I don’t suppose for one moment that Eliot had aims and objectives in mind when he wrote, ‘In my beginning is my end’. Nevertheless, his words fit well the rationale of quality teaching as, I believe, does my version. The two in combination suggest a cycle. Whether it is a closed cycle which repeats itself or an ameliorative recursion with change and development built in depends upon the quality of the teaching that drives it.
