Lorenzo comments on Expecting Short Inferential Distances - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lorenzo 19 April 2010 08:24:18PM 5 points [-]

As someone who has done (some) teaching, I think this is absolutely correct. In fact, the most difficult thing I find about teaching is trying to find the student's starting knowledge, and then working from there. If the teacher does not goes back enough 'inferential steps', the student won't learn anything - or worse, they might think they know when they don't.

Excellent stuff.