He writes: "I came to teaching when I was 20 years old. I visited a friend's classroom where a group of happy youngsters embraced me and drew me into their play, an enchanted world of their own creation. From that time onward, I've been captivated by teaching, and have recognized it as a fundamentally relational activity, an enterprise driven by human connection, emotion, and imagination, one characterized by involvement and affinity, attraction and sympathy." William Ayers (2004, p.vii) from the preface of his book "Teaching the Personal and the Political. Essays on Hope and Justice"