TRUE TEACHING | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1880

TRUE TEACHING.

About teaching much misconception exists. Webster defines the word teach, "to impart the knowledge of:" Notice the word here employed—"impart"—the radical idea of which is, dividing into parts, or sharing. To teach is to share knowledge. Two parties are supposed to exist: the giver and the receiver, the teacher and the taught. It is also implied that the pupil really receives knowledge, or comes into possession of his share. According to this definition, therefore, the pupil must actually receive knowledge, or no teaching is accomplished. Professor John S. Hart's definition of teaching is, "to cause anyone to know." It is not to attempt to impart knowledge, but it is really to do it; it is really to cause one to know. According to this definition, the pupil must be affected. He must come from the interview with additional knowledge, or there has been no teaching.—G. A. Peltz.