They served as priests for the people, representing them before God in acts of worship and prayer, and as teachers, instructing them in the observance of God's law.

They were religious leaders who studied and interpreted the law and taught it to the people.

It was viewed as a precious privilege because it allowed one to know God better and understand how to live in obedience to him.

They were church leaders who wrote in response to persecution and to counter false accusations regarding Christian beliefs.

He was responsible for educating new converts and instructing and supervising other church leaders.

He saw the need for universal mandatory education for all children, not just the rich or these preparing to serve the church.

He promoted the minister's role as a teacher of children in the Christian faith.

They practiced congregational church polity and rejected infant baptism in favor of believer baptism.

Known both for his influence on the spiritual direction movement and for founding the Jesuits, or Society of Jesus.

He spent most of his life as a refugee from his homeland due to persecution by the Roman Catholic Church.

He focused much of his early educational efforts on children and helped establish schools where parents were expected to give spiritual instruction at home and support the school's efforts as well.

He promoted the establishment of schools to train people for ministry.

A newspaper publisher and social activist, begun the Sunday School in Gloucester, England, in 1780.

He launched the modern VBS movement in 1901 in New York City.

Viewed as the primary agency of Christian education.

The most speculative and abstract area of philosophy. It requires the nature of ultimate reality.

It investigates reality and cosmology; the branch of science that studies the origin and structure of the universe.

It presents the theory of knowledge and therefore is closely related to teaching and learning.

It develops the quest for knowledge on the foundation of experience and observation.

It is concerned with values and aesthetics that prescribe what is good and right.

The philosophical study of moral values in the dimensions of beauty and art.

It stands as the impregnable source of knowledge.

it is understandably absorbed with how values are formed with all age groups and how these values may be encouraged with biblically consistent behavior as the result.

He viewed the school as a miniature community or embryonic society, in effect, a democracy.