This is my classroom essentially picked up from Wexford and dropped here.

You can do a lot with this classroom and it really is effective with many different kinds of kids. It's beautiful stuff.

I'm not sitting behind a desk in a position of authority, I'm right down on the floor giving a lesson.

The playing encompasses ... How to build words, take words apart, manipulate numbers, add, subtract, multiply, divide.

Both inside and outside the classroom, he's really genuinely concerned about both theoretical and practical issues. That's another thing that's distinctive. He's really able to join theory and practice and that is often a rare quality.

You're not going to learn the most tangible, applied processes in a book, or a classroom, or a lecture. It's not rocket science. All you need is good eyesight, a strong back, and good shipboard balance.