See this blog entry for the impetus behind this list.
Those that instruct on education…
Proverbs 22:6
6 Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Deuteronomy 6
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. [a] 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
Love God with your Mind
1. Matthew 22:37
Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
2. Mark 12:30
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
3. Luke 10:27
He answered: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind‘ ; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ “
Interpretative note: “Mind” here is problematic, because I think I would have to be pushing its interpretation to consider it from an intellectual light. As used throughout the Old and New Testament, it seems to define the seat of our emotions and morals, not so much the ability to read or write.
1 Corinthians 1
17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
18For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
Note: This is a rather negative passage on “education” or “learning” but I don’t believe Paul is belittling learning, simply comparing human skill in learning with true wisdom that has come from above.
1 Corinthians 8
1Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
Those that either illustrate education, or use education as a metaphor…
Obviously, Christ was the perfect Teacher – Matthew 13:54
54And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?
Schoolmaster as a metaphor for the Law – Galatians 3:24-25
24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
The “teacher” of Ecclesiastes – Ecclesiastes 12:9-10:
“In addition to being a sage, Qohelet also taught the people knowledge; he weighed and examined and arranged many sayings. Qohelet sought to find delightful words, and correctly wrote words of truth.”
Note from comment by Buck Holler: “Qohelet” is a nominalization of the verb ‘qahal’ meaning “to gather” or “to assemble.” Qohelet is one who assembles in order to instruct and pass on wisdom, and hence why some translations refer to him as the “Teacher.” Thanks, Buck!
Ezra as a teacher, albeit purely religious – Ezra 7:10
For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
How about Ecclesiastes 12:9-10:
“In addition to being a sage, Qohelet also taught the people knowledge; he weighed and examined and arranged many sayings. Qohelet sought to find delightful words, and correctly wrote words of truth.”
* “Qohelet” is a nominalization of the verb ‘qahal’ meaning “to gather” or “to assemble.” Qohelet is one who assembles in order to instruct and pass on wisdom, and hence why some translations refer to him as the “Teacher.”
Buck
Comparing Deut. 11:18-21 with Deut 6:4-9 from the KJV, we find the same author in the same book saying similar things to the nation of Israel. However, in the Deut. 6 passage the pronouns thou and thy are used; whereas, in the Deut. 11 passage we see, in addition, the pronouns ye and your
Deut. 6:4-9 – KJV
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Deut. 11:18-21 – KJV
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
The pronouns thee, thy, and thine are singular – likely referring to the dads among the gathering. But the pronouns ye and your are plural – likely referring to the entire gathered covenant community.
So, it seems that God, through Moses, would have both parents and the whole covenant community involved in the education of children with regard to the commands, statutes, and judgments of God.
Deut. 29:29 tells us all knowledge belongs to God – some secret and some revealed. He reveals what He wills both through His Word and His creation. Therefore, God’s words and acts are foundational to all learning. Both the covenant community AND the family are commanded to be involved in the education of children because that education is built upon the revealed truth of God. And the understanding of God’s Word is the purview of the covenant community as it expounds how that Word ought to work itself out within the family – husbands/wives and parents/children – the community, and the civil realm.