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the teacher must become a whole man, for otherwise he can educate
only half men and quarter men. The teacher must again come to an
understanding of the Word.
If we would bring before our souls this mystery of the Word, the
Word in its fullness, as it worked and was understood, in the age when
the full significance of the Gospel of St. John was still felt, we must
say to ourselves: In the old consciousness of man, spirit was present
in the word—even in the feeble word that was used in speech. Spirit
poured into the word and was the power within it.
[A Modern Art of Education, 1972, pp. 97-100.]