You can only become good teachers and educators if you pay attention not merely to what you do, but also to what you are. It is really for this reason that we have Spiritual Science with its anthroposophical outlook: to perceive the significance of the fact that man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.
Source: GA 293 – The Study of Man Lecture I – Stuttgart, 21 August 1919
Previously posted on 29th September 2013.