A swimming teacher tells how...
A swimming teacher tells how difficult it is to teach four-year-old children to swim. The
teacher realized, on his very first day of work, how terrifying it is for a four-year-old to
go from standing on the side of the pool, shivering in a towel, to floating in the water (let
alone swimming). The only way to do it is gradually. You have to support young children
in your arms, slowly bending your knees until the kids discover the property of
buoyancy: that they can indeed trust the water to hold them up, if they position their body
