Be teachable
3There is nothing more important than believers being teachable before the Word of God. Below is a taste of the reason that I used to require my students in Bible College to read the first eleven chapters of How To Read a Book by Mortimer Adler.
This summary is taken from Justin Taylor's blog.
Why You Need to Be Critical in Order to Be Teachable
Mortimer Adler, How to Read a Book (p. 140):
Teachability is often confused with subservience.
A person is wrongly thought to be teachable if he is passive and pliable.
On the contrary, teachability is an extremely active virtue.
No one is really teachable who does not freely exercise his power of independent judgment. He can be trained, perhaps, but not taught. The most teachable reader is, therefore, the most critical. He is the reader who finally responds to a book by the greatest effort to make up his own mind on the matters the author has discussed.
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3 Comments
randy Mar 19, 2011 @ 8:58 pm
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Teresa Rooneyh Jan 29, 2011 @ 5:21 pm
Hey Joe,
Thank you for these little "food for thought" tidbits (via Adler)... This makes me want to be even more critical in my thinking.. I found this to be good insight in pointing out the mis-nomre about being seemingly passive or pliable, does not necessarily mean that one is teachable... I conclude from this, that often times the most teachable, are probably the most vocal (loudmouths), in wrestling through texts of scripture..Therefore, this gives me hope as I know that I am somewhat of a loudmouth, hee hee...
Sabrina Chase Jan 28, 2011 @ 12:58 pm
This is absolutely correct.