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A 4 page essay that discusses this text by the Church Founding Father, Augustine of Hippo. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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words, in this section of Augustines instructions to Christian teachers, he describes how Christian instruction would be conducted. In the earlier sections of this work, Augustine discusses what should be
taught. The following discussion of Augustines "On Christian Teaching," first looks at these issues of curriculum and then focuses on the instructive fourth book as this section focuses on the
role of the teacher, as well as the teacher/student relationship Augustine begins his treatise explicitly stating his educational philosophy, which is that "all interpretations of scripture" depends on two things;
determining the "process of discovering what we need to learn and the process of presenting what we have learnt."1 In order to discover these processes, Augustine argues that we must
pay attention both things and to signs, as it is necessary not only to determine what Christian people ought to learn but where this knowledge should be sought. He
divides his thoughts into four books. The first book addresses things, which he describes as belonging to three classes: things that are enjoyed; things that are used; and also things
that use and enjoy. Augustine goes on to explain how sin blocks people from what they ought to be the only thing that they be sought and enjoyed, which
is pleasure derived from worshiping the Triune God. In Book II, Augustine discusses further the subject of signs. He defines what a sign if and that there are two
classes the natural sign and the conventional. Augustine argues that the ignorance of signs should be countered by learning both Hebrew and Greek, so the Scriptures can be studied in
their original languages. While Augustine dismisses much of what is written in Greek and Roman literature, he also stresses that there is also knowledge in these writings that is
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