Well put, you beat me to it! Specifically this line started my disbelief:
Humans don't learn about things this way.
Naturally, as is the hacker way, with no citations. I’ve only scratched the surface of pedagogy, but it’s a massive and mature academy drawing its modern principles from the empirical psychology of Dewey and Piaget. There’s a LOT more to say about it than can be covered in a blog post, much less a subsection of a blog post!
As you point out, the biggest issue is that people are different. The next biggest issue is we aren’t even sure why those differences occur, or how stable they are over time…
Well written post otherwise and it’s a good dive into the pragmatics of a particular educational strategy — I just would ask to see more humility, I guess!
As you point out, the biggest issue is that people are different. The next biggest issue is we aren’t even sure why those differences occur, or how stable they are over time…
Well written post otherwise and it’s a good dive into the pragmatics of a particular educational strategy — I just would ask to see more humility, I guess!