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What does the lecturer mean when she says you are here to educate your students for eternity?
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She means that we must educate students for eternity because we were created with a purpose to serve God. He gave as a soul and eternal life.
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Teaching students about God’s love for them … in hopes that students might internalize this message and pass it on to others.
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I believe the lecturer means that yes we educate our students in the classroom for the curriculum set before them, but we are also educating them for the rest of their lives as followers of Christ. We need to pour into them lasting information that they can grow with and develop more and more and they progress through their lives. Learning never stops and whether it’s brick and mortar or internal we are there to educate our students for now until eternity.
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When Ellen Lowrie Black discusses teaching for eternity, the students salvation is front in my mind when I’m planning. Helping them to engage with the Word and integrating Biblical truths into their curriculum in a manner that helps them integrate them into their own lives is a high priority. It is part of helping them grasp their true identity and purpose. They also need sources that are reliable in defending their faith, and they need to know what hermeneutics and exegesis are as well as looking for bias. Sending kids out unarmed can leave them defenseless in the fray the world presents.
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It means that a Christian philosophy is much more than learning facts in school. It’s helping students to understand who they are, why they are here, what their purpose is, and where they are going. It’s a mission to make sure they know their worth comes from being a child of God.