„It keeps going: a stroll through everyday“ 

Presented in this book are reflections about pedagogical work and suggestions – how to reach better results working with children.

“Since childhood, I have had very uncharitable thoughts about teachers. If he teaches music – that means he is perfect at playing music; if teaches literature – at recitation, stage acting and writing novels. As it happens, it’s not always like that – it is easier to teach than to play music, recite or write a novel by yourself. When I was already counting my students’ exercise books, pretentiously called books, I was counting in tens and I decided to clip a few of my writings into one exercise book. I did it half in jest. A strange feeling – a thing appears for which you are responsible because now, anybody can use it. How terrible it is if someone treats it unfairly. Yet even more terrible if those writings appear to be of little importance – you are the teacher teaching those things to others. That is why we hesitate to make our minds up and do things that sometimes life forces us to do.”

The author, who has chosen a form of essays, ad-libbing; sometimes being astonished and tormenting herself, “dives”, strolls through everyday dictating various themes and remarks. Irena Arlauskienė confesses that, “Year by year teaching others to relate dates, facts, events; to find the relation between separate thoughts; sometimes one takes and links it to the most unexpected things.”