You can bet that every seminary offers plenty of classes on preaching and Bible study, but I am not aware of any seminary which requires a class on best teaching practices.
I would be curious to find out if any even offer such a class as an elective.
So, if I could wave a magic wand and change the seminary experience for the next generation of pastors, a required class on pedagogy would be at the top of my list.
I haven't done in-depth analysis, but from glancing over online Bible dictionaries, the use of Greek and Hebrew words associated with the concept of "teaching" easily outnumber those associated with "preaching" in Scripture - even without throwing in all the instances of "knowing".
Here are the main qualifications for an "overseer" of the church, according to the Apostle Paul himself:
"An overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money." 1 Timothy 3:2-3
Is it not interesting that "able to teach" gets included while "able to preach" does not?
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