Which Is More Effective?
Memorizing the critters living in your nearby streams from a list of pictures for a test when you will never see one in your life if you don’t go in water, or… - Explore your local creek, turning over the rocks on the floor or the stream and discovering the multitude of life that was hidden, but now alive!
Read in your Civics book about government and elections, or …- Volunteering to help a candidate actually run for office, defending their stand on issues!
- Read a poem in a literature class, then discuss the imagery, symbolism, and interpretation you and Literary Scholars claim are in the work, or …
Listen to the poet read his own poem with inspiration, rhythm, diction, and meaning, never analyzing his own work, but allowing his work to speak for itself!- Read a psychology book on mental health diseases, their effects and side effects on people who suffer from those diseases, or …
Befriend a person struggling with schizophrenia or paranoia or being bipolar, helping them in their rough times, working on bringing healing in their lives!- Study your Bible looking up the latin or greek origins for the meaning of key words like “love”, “peace”, “hope” or …
- Actually giving “love, peace, or hope” to a stranger, or a struggling friend, or a love one!
I am a firm believer that one must be “taught” “love”, but is approaching it academically the most effective means for one to learn from? “Modeling” love is far more effective than “defining” love, or debating the “meaning” or “origin” of love.
The Jesus taught love by modeling it. He did it! He then made the learners, his disciples, “experience”, or do it, themselves which produced “life changing” results! We need not know more “about” Jesus; we need to “know” or “experience” Jesus. That is the challenge of the Teacher!