rabidchicken comments on Being a teacher - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Swimmer963 14 March 2011 08:03PM

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Comment author: DavidAgain 14 March 2011 08:14:29PM 4 points [-]

Very good point. Which is why I think that it sometime's harder for someone to teach something if they're very naturally good at things. Some of the best teachers I've had or seen where people who found it tough to learn themselves.

Having said that, this is partially psychological, as it's more encouraging if the teacher can say that they had to work at this too: it means the ability/understanding seems achievable. Plenty of teachers pretend that they don't think something is easy or obvious to them for that precise reason.

Comment author: rabidchicken 14 March 2011 09:21:51PM 0 points [-]

I had had the exact same experience teaching, the faster I learned something, the harder it is to explain it to someone else. Maybe I should be teaching English instead of computer science...