一我一生大部分时间都用于教学,在一些非常不同的水平上。最早是二十世纪六十年代初在贝尔法斯特巴利墨菲区圣托马斯中学,这个班的学生都是贫苦而不满的青春期少年,他们之中很多人将在十年后变成爱尔兰共和军临时派的现役成员。接着,我到一所教师培训学院工作,也是在贝尔法斯特,并花时间试图使学员教师们相信想象性文学作品和其他类型的创意活动的价值在教育过程中发挥的作用;然后到女皇大学讲 For most of my life, I used to teach, at some very different levels. The earliest was the St Thomas’ High School in Balif Murphy, Belfast, in the early 1960s. The students in this class were poor and unhappy adolescents, many of whom would become Republican Republics a decade later Active members of the military temporary. Then I went to a teacher training college, also in Belfast, and spent time trying to convince the trainees that the value of imaginative literature and other types of creative activity played a role in the education process; then to the Queen Speak in college