saturn comments on Being a teacher - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: saturn 15 March 2011 12:45:15AM *  2 points [-]

I would love to find a similar way to teach riding a bicycle. You can easily take learning to pedal offline. Steering plus balancing seem to be tightly coupled though, and the way you have to turn is very unintuitive thus hard to learn.

Take a set of training wheels that are adjustable in height, and gradually raise them farther and farther off the ground. That's how I learned.

Comment author: Manfred 15 March 2011 08:35:05AM 0 points [-]

Giving kids one of these when they're little is also a good start.

Comment author: novalis 18 April 2011 05:28:25AM 1 point [-]

Or, better, one of these