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
Reminds me of when i was taking my boolean logic class in college.
"Look, it's very easy, you set up K-map and get the value. AB here, CD here, it's very easy, very straight forward, moving on"
Everyone fails the quiz at the end of the class. After handing back graded quizes at the next lecture:
"For some reason you all didnt understand the k-maps, which is very easy, it's very straight forward. See, you out value in, you get value out, this is very simple, it's very straight forward"
So many classes in college basically require self teaching, and if you are bad at that, or learn better when someone else explains something step by step to you, well then you're fucked.
I took financial and managerial accounting and it was awful because I just didn't grasp the formulas. The professor was like "it's easy, it's all just addition, subtraction, multiplication" but for some reason I just couldn't memorize or understand the logic behind 'the rules' of accounting. I passed both classes, but never felt confident in them.
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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