In
one of her lectures, Edith Stein states that :
Education
is not an external possession of learning but rather the gestalt
which the human personality assumes under the influence of manifold
external forces.
In
other words, she implies, the process of formation of the individual
/ ourselves. And we are being integrated constantly, as our body
draws from the physical world and the psyche from the intellectual
environment; which is the world of people and from the values which
nourish it.
“Just
as an inner form resides in the seed of plants, an invisible force
making a fir tree shoot up here and a beech there, there is in this
way an inner mold set in human beings which urges the evolution into
a certain direction and works towards a certain gestalt in blind
singleness of purpose,” creating an intrinsically,
unique individual.
We
stand in awe beholding this mysterious process of Creation, in
everyone of us.
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