· A good teacher asks himself the hardest questions, works through to answers, and then frames provocative questions for his learners to stimulate their thinking.
· A good teacher analyzes his subject matter into parts and sees relationships and discovers the unity of the whole.
· A good teacher knows the problems learners will have with his subject matter and encourages them and gets them over the humps of discouragement.
· A good teacher foresees objections and thinks them through so that he can answer them intelligently.
· A good teacher can put himself in the place of a variety of learners and therefore explain hard things in terms that are clear from their standpoint.
· A good teacher is concrete, not abstract, specific, not general, precise, not vague, vulnerable, and not evasive.
· A good teacher always asks, "So what?" and tries to see how discoveries shape our whole system of thought. He tries to relate discoveries to life and tries to avoid compartmentalizing.
· The goal of a good teacher is the transformation of all of life and thought into a Christ-honoring unity.
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