Show, Don’t Tell: Teaching vs Preaching

Posted by Beetle B. on Sun 24 January 2016

A storyteller teaches, not preaches. If you talk about what you want to say, you are preaching. If you show, you are teaching. The audience learns by seeing the drama, not by seeing the message.

Think of Jane Elliot and the blue vs brown eyed kids. When adults see a video of the event, they learn the lesson much better than just being told that discrimination is bad.