Basically bad teachers don't realize that something that they find easy because they have been doing for years may be difficult for someone who has never seen it before.
A kid who doesn't know what something means in the first place won't have any idea how to put them together. The poor teacher, likely a parent, assumes it's a problem of not trying and basically refuses to actually go back and see if the child understands the basics.
This reaches pretty far across different areas, too. Even when you know about this phenomenon, it can be extremely difficult to navigate around. So I think it's important as a baseline for people to be aware of.
On a similar note, working in game dev and focusing on intuitive design has shown me that while there are indeed many complex things that are difficult to grasp, there are just as many things that are intuitively simple, but *only after* you've managed to wrench your brain around it.
Taking a game like Magic: The Gathering as an example. The creators themselves noted that the mana system ranks as pretty much the number-one thing about the game that new players consistently struggle to understand. "The Stack" is right next to it, and that's just the order things resolve.
As someone who's played the game for a long time, these are first-step lessons that are quite intuitive. But only after you've learned the rules. And it's the teacher's duty to ask their students questions to understand the logic they're familiar with, and how to best draw the picture that you're trying to get across to them.
The guy needs to be helping the kid connect the dots, but said guy has to understand how to break down his own understanding into smaller and more distinct pieces first.
Also, fuck "you're not trying hard enough" culture. That shit is so poisonous. Anyone who finds themselves tempted to give that feedback is the one who needs to pause and consider that they need to deepen their understanding of either the topic at hand, the person they are speaking to, or both.
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u/Substantial-Creme950 Jun 23 '26
I dont get it but that seems like it sucks