The look as a form of language, in its immediacy, its primordiality, makes manifest what makes possible the looks in the first place-our humanity. The look seems to make possible a communion, a complete uniting, a oneness between us where our inner selves, that which words cannot describe, can come together in measureless moments. The power of the look is the immediacy in which it allows us to be together, the immediacy which is a primordial manifestation of our very being. It is not surprising that we should speak here of the look and pedagogy. For what our shared looks can make possible between us is the stuff of which pedagogy itself is made.
Pedagogical relationships are fundamental to our being human in the first place.
Their relationship depends on the desire of the student to want to be affected and led by the teacher and by the desire of the teacher to lead. There must be a willingness to acknowledge the teacher as one who can inspire, as someone who can lead or give a sense of direction to one's life. The teacher must be willing to see the student as someone who must be inspired, led, guided on the way to becoming a whole person. There are physical looks where just the eyes meet. Then there are looks which seem to transcend this social interaction and which speak directly to the understanding which being in pedagogy is all about.