Some Innovative Teaching Techniques Are Not Good Ideas

As one teacher learned when she tore up a Bible to get students to think about how they would feel if someone desecrated what they considered sacred.

Thinking about what you would feel if someone desecrated what you hold sacred as a teaching technique: GOOD.

Witnessing someone desecrating what you hold sacred as a teaching technique: BAD.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

3 thoughts on “Some Innovative Teaching Techniques Are Not Good Ideas”

  1. Now, now. We can’t blame the teacher for being shocked to find that people still hold that silly book as sacred in today’s day and age now can we? I mean we’re like technologically advanced and stuff today right? Oy, some people are just plain clueless.

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