True and Real Education

“In order for education to be true and real, two things are required: First, that the teacher’s personality and nature are filled with love and interest for the subject in question so that the pupil’s personality opens up and absorbs the thoughts, feelings and concept of the subject through the unfathomable power of the living word. Second, that the matter which is to be communicated, is such that the pupil, at his spiritual level, is able to receive it in such a way that it can either awake or nourish his spiritual life.”

(From The Danish Friskole: A segment of the Grundtvigian-Kold school tradition)