A word on pedagogy

Joseph Alan Carmack alancarmack at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU
Sun Jun 11 13:34:15 UTC 2000


The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like
not to understand that thing. That's a  very hard thing to do.
Every time you come to understand something you didn't
understand before, you are transformed. You become a
different person from who you were before. The key to teaching
someone else to understand that same thing is to remember
your former, untransformed self. If you can do that, I think you
can teach anything, even physics.

                                                    David Goodstein

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