While it's true that you won't survive long with a lot of 'cracks' in your foundation of understanding, I think there's quite a bit of worth in helping people i

While it's true that you won't survive long with a lot of 'cracks' in your foundation of understanding, I think there's quite a bit of worth in helping people identify and explore the holes in their own understanding and making this as painless as possible. I understand that we can't trod new ground if nobody is willing to put up with the difficult slogs, but there's no reason to make things difficult for the sake of difficulty. There are plenty of challenging exercises one can do simply by learning to apply a newfound understanding without having to leap from perch to perch because nobody would explain how to bridge a certain gap. I think that things are trending in this direction already, actually.