ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 considers what the teacher of religious education should do in order for it to be possible for the child to make her beginnings into the world of others. It proposes that the teacher will first bring the child to attend to others and then to other aspects of the world. This is explained by revisiting Weil and discussions in Chapter 4 to show the teacher should cultivate in the child or young person the capacity for attention, intellectual humility and discernment. Arendt enables the significance of the teacher in religious education in the public sphere to be spelt out. The teacher has a role in ensuring the possibility of the existence of the public sphere. Arendt enables the articulation of this as a relationship that entails great responsibility in light of the fact that the young are introduced by adults into a continuously changing world.
