27/9/12

Educar para la vida

Enlace de lectura: Educar para la vida: "Incúlcaselas continuamente a tus hijos. Háblales de ellas cuando estés en tu casa y cuando vayas por el camino, cuando te acuestes y cuando te levantes. Deuteronomio 6:7" por http://cristianos.com/

18/9/12

Keep on Learning

 

When I was about six years old my school diagnosed me as being ‘educationally sub-normal’ (a less politically correct term for what is now labelled ‘special needs’). After a few one-on-one lessons with the headmistress (during which I demonstrated a technique for observing the way that snails propel themselves and created an elaborate full-size painting of a native American chief, complete with headdress made from real feathers), they realized I was not ESN, but simply bored.












 

13/9/12

They Learn What You're Excited About

If I have learned anything in 35 or 40 years of teaching, it is that students don’t learn everything I teach them. What they learn is what I am excited about, the kinds of things I emphasize again and again and again and again. That had better be the gospel.

If the gospel—even when you are orthodox—becomes something which you primarily assume, but what you are excited about is what you are doing in some sort of social reconstruction, you will be teaching the people that you influence that the gospel really isn’t all that important. You won’t be saying that—you won’t even mean that—but that’s what you will be teaching. And then you are only half a generation away from losing the gospel.

Make sure that in your own practice and excitement, what you talk about, what you think about, what you pray over, what you exude confidence over, joy over, what you are enthusiastic about is Jesus, the gospel, the cross. And out of that framework, by all means, let the transformed life flow.

Link to reading:  Carson: People Don’t Learn What I Teach Them; They Learn What I’m Excited About: "
D.A. Carson: HT: C.J. Mahaney




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12/9/12

What if he hadn't ever picked up the violin?

 
Here's a thought: what if Itzhak Perlman had never discovered his love of music? What if he hadn't ever picked up the violin?
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Link to continue reading: What's your violin? by The Cathy Family