The artist shows us beauty, the saint shows us God.

It should therefore be the business of those in authority to search out and give scope to those who possess and are able to impart this triumphing spiritual life.

A head-master who makes his boys live at their highest level and act on their noblest impulses, because he does it himself, is a person of supreme value to the State.

It would be well if we cleared our minds of cant, and acknowledged that such a man alone is truly able to educate; since the spiritual life is infectious, but cannot be propagated by artificial means.
Finally, we have to remember that any attempt towards the education of the spirit--and such an attempt must surely be made by all who accept spiritual values as central for life--can only safely be undertaken with full knowledge of its special dangers and difficulties.

These dangers and difficulties are connected with the instinctive and intellectual life of the child and the adolescent, who are growing, and growing unevenly, during the whole period of training.