It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people. I send you these words to thank you for the time you took with your students, for the effort you gave to help us learn, and for the huge part of yourself that you've invested into education. All that you've given never will be forgotten, and always will be appreciated.
Teachers open the door.
You enter by yourself. A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him.