Abstract
I am sixty-three years old. I have been in school since I was four years old. I have been a student or teacher all my life. That is a lot of life and a lot of school. Growing old is a complicated affair. Like David Whyte (1994) knows, “whatever graceful tension we have achieved between innocence and experience, midlife seems to come upon us unawares” (p. 181).
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Leggo, C. (2017). A Teacher’s Credo. In: Wiebe, S., Lyle, E., Wright, P.R., Dark, K., McLarnon, M., Day, L. (eds) Ways of Being in Teaching. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-092-9_12
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