I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative <br />and deals with contradiction and criticism only as a means, only involuntarily — the <br />three tasks for which educators are required. One must learn to see, one must learn to <br />think, one must learn to speak and write: the goal in all three is a noble culture. <br />Learning to see — accustoming the eye to calmness, to patience, to letting things <br />come up to it; postponing judgment, learning to go around and grasp each individual <br />case from all sides. That is the first preliminary schooling for spirituality: not to react <br />at once to a stimulus, but to gain control of all the inhibiting, excluding instincts.