…make better teachers than know-alls.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. I’ve always found that the best way to learn a subject is to teach it to someone else.
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…make better teachers than know-alls.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. I’ve always found that the best way to learn a subject is to teach it to someone else.
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Intriguing finding, but — in retrospect — not surprising. On a somewhat parallel note, I found many years ago, as a software engineer, that when I had a bug I just couldn’t find, the best solution was to drag another programmer into my cubicle/office and start explaining it all to her/him out loud, complete with looking at source code. I usually found the bug halfway through the explanation.
Wow! You too!
What amazes me about this is that you have to have someone else present to explain it to them. Talking to yourself doesn’t work (also looks weird to co-workers).
Meanwhile, whoever you choose to be your victim is thinking bad thoughts about you.
“I’ve always found that the best way to learn a subject is to teach it to someone else.”
My major professor from my Master’s program left me with one lesson that has served me better than any other: “The true test of whether you understand something is whether you can explain it to your mother so that she understands it.”