The focus will be on providing what Guskin describes as optimal learning environments : those that move student from passive to active roles in their own learning; those that deemphasize extrinsic and increase intrinsic motivation; and those that reduce large group instruction while enhancing smaller, intimate groupings. The story we presented in Chapter 1 by Watson and Konicek 1990 about children who thought their clothes were "hot" is an example of such a learning environment. And we shall turn once again to that very same story a bit later in this chapter.