65: Why Education Matters with Rabbi Jonny Solomon (Your Virtual Rabbi)

Rabbi Jonny Solomon is an educator, scholar, editor, and “Virtual Rabbi” who provides online spiritual coaching, Halachic consultations, and one-to-one learning for those who need a Rabbi.

Gems: 

• Through the art of teaching, we can change lives!
• Teachers who invest time in trying to educate as best as they can, will change their own lives as well.
• Teachers need teachers.
• Important to have someone who is a Rabbinic influence in addition to teachers. 
• Teachers are there to push you in the way you should be going.
• Our relationship with G-d is personal and emotional.
• Speak about your own relationship with G-d.
• Education is a dedication to help people who are unfamiliar with a series of ideas develop a connection to those ideas and explore them further.
• It’s important to be passionate about what you’re teaching.
• We need to teach our students how to survive Jewishly.
• Be clear about what is the learning outcome.
• Teach students that the Torah is theirs.
• The Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora need to learn from each other.
• Education matters!
• When teachers forget, students don’t.
• Educators can shape lives or break lives.
• Being a real teacher means bringing your whole self.
• We can grow through learning.
• Education is a work of heart.
• What you do matters.
• Teach from a place of knowledge, not fear.
• Education is figuring out how to make facts meaningful.

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