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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

Yet our chief concern in this chapter is still with "the misfit,"— the man who must unconventionally select his educational opportunities.

That man is mid to be badly educated who educates himself, yet every thinker knows that in the best sense of the word education is fundamentally matter of self-development. It is what a man evolves out of his opportunities that counts, and it is almost commonplace nowadays to state that men who make their mark in the world are usually those who have come from the common walks of life and chosen opportunities which suited them—when it pleased them. Education, if it is to be "as broad as man," must take full advantage of this native tendency to originate, experiment, and take its own time; otherwise it is largely interference.

In the profoundest sense, no man ever transcends the relative, individual point of view. This being so, there is every reason to develop this point of view to the full, that it may mature through its own strength, contributing in fullest measure to the growth of other minds.

Man is by nature an imitative creature. This is a very strong reason why he should be encouraged to originate. Spontaneity and receptivity, leisure for experiment and meditation, are absolutely essential to originality. The highest that a man can do is taught him by a spontaneous revelation welling up, according to laws of its own, in the minds of those whose lives are consecrated to it. All consciousness, all training, all reading, should be

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