It is crucial for every instructor to have a private philosophy of teacher education based mostly on a set of values and principles. For one thing, it’s obvious that children are born illiterate and innumerate, and blind to the norms and cultural achievements of the neighborhood or society into which they have been thrust; however with the assistance of skilled lecturers and the devoted amateurs of their families and instant environs (and with the help, too, of instructional sources made available through the media and nowadays the web), within a few years they can read, write, calculate, and act (no less than usually) in culturally-applicable ways.

With a view to reinforce the academic ministries of those institutions or to protect their min- istries from secular interference, Christian d...