gwillen comments on Being a teacher - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 March 2011 12:44:34AM 5 points [-]

When I read this, I remembered also being told to "move your arms and legs".

Seriously?

Seriously?

WTF WAS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE oh never mind OP said it better.

Comment author: gwillen 20 March 2011 04:50:36PM 4 points [-]

It's a tragic fact that most people not only can't teach, they lack the introspective abilities necessary to understand that they can't teach. They just can't comprehend that something they find easy is actually hard, or that something they perceive as atomic has steps. Thus they blame the students for their poor teaching skills.