ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author utilizes the word ‘stretched’ wittingly, because good teachers help readers to learn the things they find hardest in ways which are right for them. Good teachers all understood in very deep ways what their pupils needed. They seemed to create a feeling of calm, an anchored feeling, a settled feeling in a group which felt like a real community, and yet they seemed to do this in order to jolt readers and make they rethink or think anew in quantum leaps. The junior and secondary years were barren intellectually, with nice teachers and less pleasant ones, but no more inspiration, and no more scholarship – just academic hoops. These were all teachers who valued childhood play, either by encouraging children to become part if it, or by helping their student teachers to empower children to play, including children who were sick, or who had disabilities.
