It requires understanding who people (teachers and students alike) are in order to facilitate meaningful growth. This requires identifiable standards. Since humanity’s creation in the image of God concerns what people can become, based on who they are now, it’s no wonder that some have recognized that the “exhilarating truth of imago Dei” is central to what Christian education is all about.4 Again, though, the problem of what it means to be in the image of God arises. A recent study of teachers in