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I encountered this in real life in a completely different field. As a schoolboy I studied the trumpet. My teacher was an excellent trumpeter. He gave me exer
by laurieg 10y ago
I encountered this in real life in a completely different field.
As a schoolboy I studied the trumpet. My teacher was an excellent trumpeter. He gave me exercises every week and said "Just play these for an hour a day and you'll have no problems".
I would go away and put in my hour a day practice and get no where. I wanted to play the high notes like those jazz bands but I would get no where.
I'd go back to my teacher and he'd give me another set of exercises. Diligently I go away and repeat the same process.
Other students of his seemed to do well, but not everyone. It seemed really rather random.
He was a great player but I believe he had very little introspection and didn't really know what made him great in a pedagogical sense. He was likely making minute movements with the muscles of his mouth that he had no idea about but he just stumbled across with his hours of practice.
After this experience I realised how skill in a topic and teaching ability are quite different. Sometimes a person has both at a high level and is really an excellent teacher, but often there are times where someone is a player, not a teacher.
- tomca32 10y agoComing from the world of classical ballet, this is a very familiar issue. In ballet, it is often said that the best dancers are the worst teachers. The very best teachers are the ones who had no talent and spent insane hours trying to figure out which muscles to use, at what moment and with what intensity. They are the ones who will tell you that you need to push the opposing arm in the turn in order to have enough force for multiple turns without falling over. The best dancers will tell you to "just turn". They have a natural sense for balance in turns and don't understand why you keep falling over.