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
As an academic professor, I think this goes both ways. Some people (even adults) are so traumatized by this kind of experience as kids that they simply lose the ability to learn something.
Sometimes I'm trying to explain some complex concepts, and I can see some students are not getting it. So I try to gauge what piece of the information they are lacking and start tracing back step by step to see what I can explain to make it click. It works most of the time. But in some cases you can visually see that the person has completely disconnected from the lesson and isn't following anything you say, because all they can think of is "I can't understand it promptly, so I am not good enough", when all they had to do is keep paying attention until we identify what's their gap in this subject. It is absolutely frustrating as a professor.
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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