There is much for Christian and classical educators to consider in this post by Christopher Perrin about an interview with Calvin College professor James K.A. Smith who has authored Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview and Cultural Formation. This interview includes 45 minutes of substantive material that is not for the faint of heart, but it is nicely broken down into 14 manageable sub-sections. Teachers and parents may be particularly interested by the first two sections: "Pedagogy Assumes an Anthropology" and "How Humans are Shaped." Here is a excerpt from the introduction by Christopher Perrin:

According to Smith, humans beings cannot help imagining an ideal of human flourishing and in fact, imagining ideals is a large part of what it means to be human.  Smith contends that we are all seeking some version of the good life, we all desire a kingdom.  What is more, we are all being shaped and formed in various ways to love and desire one sort of kingdom or another.

Now all this has profound implication for education, for whatever else education is, it is a sustained attempt to shape and form a human being. Even when educators have no idea what ideal or form they hold forth–they are shaping and forming nonetheless, for education occurs directly and indirectly, for better or for worse.