Advice giving & the classroom

When it comes to teaching, I think a lot about maintaining the fine balance between clearly, loudly, explicitly teaching my students things to know, and subtly, quietly, implicitly teaching them ways to think.

I wonder if—and how—to reveal to students what I think. And, if I do, does that help or hinder their ability to make their own thoughtful, reflective, fully developed claims?

Depending on the situation, my instincts lead me different ways. For example, a reason I like preaching is that it calls for an explicit proclamation, a faith claim—the gospel.