Excerpt from The Education of the Music Teacher IT has been well said that many things reach the intellect that never reach the consciousness.' Thus, one may read the injunction Love thy neighbor as thyself; may give intellectual as sent to it as a wise and just line of conduct to pursue, and yet may never so thoroughly adopt it as to resolve it into a spontaneous impulse to action. Now the whole purpose of life clearly shows itself to be the up-building of the consciousness; the perception of facts by the intellect and their conscious acceptance by the inner self as working principles. Thus the individual is strengthened and his field of vision is enlarged. His purpose becomes specifically directed, and his work is more perfectly accomplished. The object of this book is to bring certain essential facts particularly before the teacher; 1 Sigurd Ibsen, Human Quintessence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.