The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling!

Ask the Right Question, get the Right Answer~

I retired over three years ago as a teacher at a small private Christian school. I taught physial science and band (grade 5-12). One of the joys of teaching is seeing your students begin to question what they are being taught by their teachers. This rarely happens in the elementary grades, but it does happen more often as students enter and go through high school. As students came into my 9-12 grade band from elementary band I told them that their job in high school was to "prove their teachers wrong" in what they taught; that the only way they could do this was to "own the information and context" so that they KNEW what they had been taught was valid and verified. In other words, "Don't believe what your teachers tell you just because they tell you".

To help students do this I invented a game that I played from time to time with all my band class, and also in classes in which I substituted. The game was called "Stump the Teacher". The purpose of the game was to teach the students HOW to ask a cogent quesion, so they could get a reliable answer from the teacher. The rules were simple: students could as the teacher (me) any question about any academic subject they were currently studying, or had studied in the past (no personal questions). If I did not know the answer the class got a point. If I knew the answer I got a point (which were tallied on the board).  There was one important condition; they had to know the answer to the question before they asked it, so they knew the I wasn't making up an answer just to fool them. They found this was more difficult than it looked, but it taught them HOW to ask the question in the right way, to get the right answer.

To learn the truth you must first OWN it. Dig deep, turn over rocks, find the places where truth is hidding. Then you will know it. John 8:32.