Just as it is vital for parents to live their lives as fully as possible and to deepen their understanding of themselves to the utmost, so it is important for teachers and educators to do the same. When children go to school their teachers become, during school hour, substitutes for the parents, the children transfer to the teacher some of the feeling they have for their parents and are influenced in their turn by the personalities of the teacher. This mutual relationship is of more importance than any teacher method, and a child’s ability to learn is continually hampered if the relationship is unsatisfactory. Again, if teachers really want to be educators, to help children to develop in to satisfactory men and women, and not simply to ‘stuff then with knowledge’ , they will only be really successful if they themselves have sound personalities. No amount of preaching, however well done, no principles, however sound, no clever technique or mechanical aids can replace the influence of a well-developed personality.