"Educate literally means 'to lead out from...' I choose to teach because I believe God has called me to lead others from a certain level of awareness, appreciation,skill and knowledge to another level of awareness, appreciation, skill, and knowledge. Indeed, mysteries are revealed in the classroom. Since I believe teaching is a vocation as well as a profession, I seek to form relationships with my students that will lead them out of a limiting, temporal focus ('majoring in minors') toward a liberating, eternal focus. As for the specific specialization of modern languages, I seek to 'duct' or channel my students from a passive, elementary, and theoretical knowledge of the target language to an active, advanced and practical skill which allows for new, international relationships. I rejoice in seeing students progress in their language skills. learning to think the way another people group thinks, and the new awareness of one's own culture that results from the comparison. Teaching alows me to give to others what God has given me, notably modern languages. In no other profession would I be following my vocation."
"The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things revealed belong to us and to our children." My relationship with God can be summarized as one that dwells on the revealed things found in Scripture, my conscience, and nature. I leave the secret things to God and His sovereignty and focus on what He is continually revealing to me, not at all frustrated with what I do not yet know.
Deuteronomy 20:29
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