Most from-fundamentals education involves learning small steps which are later discarded in favor of radically different processes not easily understood without

Most from-fundamentals education involves learning small steps which are later discarded in favor of radically different processes not easily understood without having gone thru those prior steps. Better reading analogy [I read very fast]: we don't teach children to glance at a page, absorb random words, predict likely filler content, identify interesting sections, and repeat process on those sections - instead, we teach children to read left-to-right, word-for-word, until they can do so well enough & fast enough that they internally develop content prediction techniques leading to "page at a glance" reading.