God created the world, in that all things owe to God their existence and purpose, their intention and design. God redeems the world, in that all things created are distanced from the Creator by sin, yet in love God provides the effective means of reclaiming what sin has ruined. God calls his people to participate in the work of redemption. Stewards, or field hands, is the biblical analog. The Christian teacher is God's steward for the development of the person, specifically in our understanding of creation's complexity, our knowledge of creation's wonder, and our management of creation's resources.
Methodologies are numerous and each assumes a position on the nature of mind and person.
This hierarchical, monologic transmission model has been a favorite of teaching professionals in the church and academy. It assumes a fixed universe of knowledge and a monolithic need to acquire functional capability over some part of a fixed world. It creates, conveniently, an intellectual class whose monopoly of knowledge is offered to novitiates who then are expected to conform to the system which this model of teaching perpetuates. Clearly, a different model of instruction is needed if the teaching vocation is to reflect the character of God. For the Christian, knowledge is the discovery of God's world, and therefore good per se.