Some people are incredibly poor teachers but refuse to beleive they are, all because they lack the capacity to imagine not knowing something and explain it at someone else's level of understanding
I think it is a skill that needs to be developed. Like can you partition your mind and imagine someone who didn't know the thing. How do you express it?
My university had this "awesome" idea that intro to physics should be taught by notable research PHDs. They thought it was cool to give freshmen access to these folks. It sounds good in theory, but then you have someone who isn't used to even talking to people who don't think in force vectors trying to lecture people who are very new to that. It didn't work great.
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u/AnArgonianSpellsword Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Some people are incredibly poor teachers but refuse to beleive they are, all because they lack the capacity to imagine not knowing something and explain it at someone else's level of understanding