The High Calling in their Vocation

"Training in the habits of attentiveness, respect, and responsibility is consistently encouraged across the grades.  Teachers themselves are inculcating these habits both personally and professionally so that students will witness important modeling. As well, teachers and caregivers should develop in themselves and the child a sense of 'ought' and responsibility in life and learning. It is wrong to make children fall under the rule of law while adults are not bound by law as well.  How often do teachers lower student grades for late assignments while they themselves are often tardy to school?  Or do they require orderly desks while their own is a disaster?  Teachers ought to be about the business of doing themselves what is required of the students.  As well, all schoolwork should be done in such a manner that children are aware of their own responsibility in learning; "it is their business to know that which has been taught" with no repetition.

"This sense of responsibility might be better framed in light of the teacher's and child's high calling in their vocation.  If they view themselves as coworkers in the kingdom of God, performing tasks that are worthy in His sight and expressing godly dominion over their work, life, and leisure, then responsibility takes on higher meaning and worth." 

         ---Jack Beckman's essay "The Child is a Person" from When Children Love to Learn