Do you remember having homework out of textbooks where many of the answers were in the back of the book, so you could look up the answers and know right away whether or not you got the correct answer? And then of course, if you got the wrong answer, you would go back and change your answer.
There certainly is a real help to knowing the answer. That way you can evaluate whether you are understanding what you’re learning. However, I’m sure you had a friend—not you of course—who would look up the answers right away and was more concerned about the answer and just getting the grade rather than making sure they understood the concepts they were supposed to be learning. If that’s the approach to learning—just give me the answer so I can get the grade—is there really any learning going on? Is the student that just quickly runs to the back of the book to get the answer so they can get the grade being prepared for the next class? Are they even being prepared well for the rest of life with that kind of approach to learning?
As a biblical counselor, one of the easiest errors
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