![]() The rigid, proscribed and goal-driven methods of teaching would not, could not work within the Maori context. She was a gifted teacher, too, a teacher who instinctively understood that these children lived in a time and space, a world, entirely different from that she’d left behind. Ashton-Warner is a gifted writer there’s no doubt about that. ![]() Ashton-Warner, the children, or the reader of the books. It is difficult to say who benefits most from that work-Ms. ![]() The main story of the five books is of romance but perhaps the stronger story is of her work with the Maori children. The author is Sylvia Ashton-Warner, an English woman who went to New Zealand to teach five-year old children for two years and, instead, stayed there for the rest of her life. Today I introduce a book in a review about five books, but especially about one of them, Teacher. ![]()
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