Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Questions

A good teacher uses questions but a great teacher uses the students' questions.  I worked with a man who was a master at using the students' questions.  The students always thought that they were drawing him off topic but he used their questions to teach them the principles of the lesson.  He was a master at this.
Jesus was a master teacher.  In John 13 and 14 the disciples ask Jesus many questions and He uses those questions to teach them.  Now it wasn't that they were trying to get the Teacher off topic but they had a real desire to know.  Parents do this with their children.  The average three year old will ask about 300 questions per day.  How a parent answers those questions will determine how that child learns.  That is why Moses instructed the people to talk to their children while they were sitting in the house or going for a walk.  Do we turn off the TV or the radio so that we can talk to our children and answer their questions?

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