Critical Thinkers

"And he gave some as apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers, to equip the holy ones for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the extent of the full stature of Christ,  so that we may no longer be infants, tossed by waves and swept along by every wind of teaching arising from human trickery, from their cunning in the interests of deceitful scheming."
-Ephesians 4:11-14
 
One way public school teachers can best minister is to teach their students to be critical thinkers.  Everyone is inundated with advertisements or propaganda, which can consist of all sorts of human trickery.  Critical thinkers will less likely be decieved and will often come to believe, if they aren't believers already.  Studying the life of Jesus, for example, has to lead one to conclude he was God or a fraud.  An objective look at the evidence we have available would lead most to conclude he was God, with or without the help of the gift of faith from the Holy Spirit (not that faith, no matter how it is attained, can ever really be separated from the Holy Spirit).