rial can be richer; none so funda-
mentally expansive and illuminative.

This contact with the richest per-
sonalities the world has produced is one
of the deepest sources of culture; for
nothing is more truly educative than
association with persons of the high-
est intelligence and power. When a
man recalls his educational experience,
he finds that many of his richest op-
portunities were not identified with
subjects or systems or apparatus, but
with teachers. There is fundamental
truth in Emerson's declaration that
it makes very little difference what
you study, but that it is in the high-
est degree important with whom you
study. There flows from the living
teacher a power which no text-book
can compass or contain, -- the power
of liberating the imagination and setting
the student free to become an origi-

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