Texts:2011 Flâneurs of the Fields (2011): Difference between revisions

   <p>For one, the seeds of my theory of education, privileging study over instruction,  were planted during the recreational periods at the school. Soon after we arrived in  Locarno I understood the reason for the second of my interview questions and the good  fortune in my answer. Since I had volunteered competence at water skiing, I  discovered that I was designated a program water ski instructor when I wasn't out on a  trip. And water skiing was the really popular "Swiss Holiday" sport. The next morning I  went down to inspect. The boat was a little under-powered, but I figured that that  mattered only with over-weight novices. The setting was spectacular — the upper end  of a long finger lake, an area about 2 miles by 2 miles, framed by the southern edge of  the Alps, which channeled the winds away from the water, leaving the lake surface  almost always glassy. We were astonished to see the lake edged with palm  trees. Could this be Switzerland? Now, with wealthy masses teaming, all sorts of boats  crowd Lago Maggiore; but then ours was one of just a handful there. We would slalom  to exhaustion in the sunset, a single undulating plume tracing its way back and forth  across the lake. </p>

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   <p>Locarno, looking at where the school was </p>