Under the first head, we play by influence or demeanour a certain part in the education of every child whom we meet.
Under the second head, by acquiescence in the social order, we accept responsibility for the state of life in which it is born.

The child's first intimations of the spiritual must and can only come to it through the incarnation of Spirit in its home and the world that it knows.

What, then, are we doing about this?
It means that the influences which shape the men and women of the future will be as wholesome and as spiritual as we ourselves are: no more, no less.

Tone, atmosphere are the things which really matter; and these are provided by the group-mind, and reflect its spiritual state.
The child's whole educational opportunity is contained in two factors; the personality it brings and the environment it gets.

Generations of educationists have disputed their relative importance: but neither party can deny that the most fortunate nature, given wrongful or insufficient nurture, will hardly emerge unharmed.