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January 01, 1970
January 01, 1970
Due to word limit I could not include my “postscript.” Here it is:
Horace Mann (1796-1859), a great American educational reformer, slavery abolitionist, and politician committed to promoting public education (known as “The Father of American Education”) said: “Teaching is the most difficult of all arts and the profoundest of all sciences.” Jonathan Messerli, Horace Mann: A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 37.
I have had good and bad days in many classes (and still do). While I have matured over the years, I resonate strongly with David I. Smith who said:
“There is no quick recipe for Christian pedagogy, just a long process, worked out with fear and trembling, of taking off the old and putting on the new, and finding ways of speaking, acting, and shaping shared activity that resonate with the kingdom of God. It is born of prayer, of study, of listening to students, of the acquired discipline of attentiveness to what is happening in class, of the humility that allows us to hear from others that our best efforts are not quite doing what we think they are.” David I. Smith, On Christian Teaching: Practicing Faith in the Classroom (Grand Rapids, MI.: Wm. E. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2018), 158.