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No. Asking someone a question is a lot less time consuming than reading an entire book to get one paragraph worth of summarized, distilled knowledge. Reading a
by PostOnce 16y ago
No. Asking someone a question is a lot less time consuming than reading an entire book to get one paragraph worth of summarized, distilled knowledge. Reading a book counts as "figuring it out yourself".
- ShardPhoenix 16y agoTrue, but reading a longer work on a topic can also reveal a lot of things you didn't know you didn't know.
- PostOnce 16y agoIndeed. Self-teaching and instruction are not mutually exclusive, in fact, together, they probably amount to synergy.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoActually, asking a question has much higher average latency. Reading a book has much higher total throughput and much better average latency, because it allows you to "ask" questions (look at the index for the appropriate section, for example) from within the correct context, which is key to understanding.