This book is a collection of philosophical, poetic and practical essays that question the dominant image of education we have all inherited, and provides encouragement, commiserations and examples of a more ecologically sound understanding of the living disciplines of knowledge entrusted to teachers and students in school.

David Jardine is a Full Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary. His former employ involved supervising student-teachers in school classrooms and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in pedagogy and curriculum. He is the author of 14 previous books, 130 articles in refereed journals and over 45 chapters in various book collections. He is now receiving a thorough early childhood education from his two grandsons, feeling tired and happy, and can hardly write fast enough to keep up.