p To be a teacher is to be a member of a special profession. The future make-up of a new generation of a country’s citizens depends on the teachers’ cultural, professional and general standard.

p I am convinced that everything that pedagogics achieved is transformed through the personality of the teacher. For students a teacher should always be a Personality in the highest sense of that word, and everything about him acquires special importance: how he works, how he lives, how he spends his leisure time, his attitude towards people and nature. I would distinguish four basic types of relationships that develop a teacher’s inner self. First, his attitude towards the world of objects, towards science, technology, culture, and towards pedagogics proper and the means it employs. Secondly, his attitude towards people, towards children and their parents, colleagues, school administrators, to those around him, and especially those in trouble and experiencing difficult times. Third, his attitude towards nature. And fourth, and this is especially important, his attitude towards himself, his consciousness of himself as a teacher.

The aim of the present work is to acquaint readers with some of a teacher’s spiritual states of mind, and, more specifically, to develop some understanding of how first a teacher’s calling is born, and then a mastery of pedagogical skills.