Proverbs 18:1
“Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.”
The foundational ingredient to learning is desire. Desire is what will cause a person to want to learn. According to the verse above, desire is what causes a person to be willing to separate from other things so they can learn and have what they desire.
When I was in school, one of the requirements for playing sports was to have good grades. Not only did the school require this, but my parents required it as well. When I wanted to work an outside job, my parents agreed to let me work as long as it did not affect my grades. The desire to play sports and work is what drove me to study hard. It was desire that drove me to learn.
Until you have desire, you will never learn. A desire for something will cause you to sacrifice pleasures that will hinder you from obtaining your desire. If you are ever going to learn more about a subject, then you must create in yourself a desire for that subject. Without creating desire for the subject, you will never study and learn how to get that desire.
Furthermore, a teacher who wants to teach their students something must realize that the greatest way to teach is to make the subject desirable for the students. Teaching becomes an easy thing to do when your students desire to learn what you know. When you teach to students who have no desire, then the only thing you are doing is exposing your knowledge of a subject. When your students have a desire to learn that subject, then that is when you begin to transfer that knowledge to them.
The greatest job a teacher has is to make what they want to teach desirable. A school teacher must make their subject desirable if they want their students to learn. A preacher must make the subject of his sermon desirable if he wants those in the congregation to learn. A parent must make what they want their children to become desirable if they are ever going to be able to teach them the right way to live. Until you make the subject desirable, something that others want, then you will never be able to get the subject across to those whom you are teaching.
Remember, whenever you teach, somehow create an appetite and a desire for others to want to learn. Show them how it will benefit them, and you will find they will want what you have. When they want what you have, then you have created desire in them. That desire will cause them to want to learn. Even better, that desire will cause them to continue to learn after you are done teaching them. Without desire, a person will never learn and a teacher will never truly be able to teach.
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