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Comment author: Vaniver 30 September 2015 01:28:32PM 2 points [-]

Another interesting result is that the best feedback for fostering understanding often comes not from experts, who have such a deep degree of understanding and automaticity that it impairs their ability to simulate and communicate with minds struggling with new material, but from students who just learned the material

The core material for teaching is not the subject to be taught, but human confusions about that subject.