One has to understand oneself, and this is where the importance of the educator lies. He, in his teaching the student, has to understand his own conditioning, but also in the very act of teaching reveal to the student his conditioning. It is mutual work: the teaching, the teacher and the taught are working together, realising together the condition of the mind, sharing together in the exploration of each one’s conditioning. And it is only then that there is a possibility of bringing about the right kind of education, which is the education of the whole of the human being, not just one part of it.
From an Interview by Tara McCarthy, Brockwood Park, 1 June 1970