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. Again the biblical metaphor of steward, a field superintendent whose work adds luster to the master's kingdom, captures the heart of the mission.
Teaching awakens the mind.
The fall has depressed human curiosity and made the problem-poser slothful. Apathy is the cloud that darkens human discovery. Indifference to redemption is the attitude that marks the extent of sin's corruption of the human will. Under the influence of sin, the field is barren and the field-hand drowsy and careless, seemingly unaware that the misery of the field is not its essence, that the hardness of the field's surface is not its creational texture. Christian teaching takes up the shovel, as it were, and digs.