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> It just doesn't make any sense that people are inherently bad at teaching. Whether it makes sense or not, what is your personal experience with others who tr
by hellofunk 9y ago
> It just doesn't make any sense that people are inherently bad at teaching.
Whether it makes sense or not, what is your personal experience with others who try to teach you? Did you have nothing but highly effective teachers in school?
If you did, you are in the rare minority.
- WalterBright 9y agoThe negation of: "Most people are actually pretty bad at explaining things in a clear, concise, helpful way, very often especially people well-versed in the field they are trying to explain. Communicating complex concepts to non-experts is indeed a fairly rare skill." is not: "nothing but highly effective teachers".
- hellofunk 9y agoWhy not?
- WalterBright 9y agoBecause the negation of 10% is 90%, not 10%.
- hellofunk 9y agoExcept that we are not talking about numbers, we are talking about human behavior. Applying a formula to that, as you are attempting to do, is not going to give you the conclusions you expect.
- marktangotango 9y agoFYI he's applying logical operations to sentences as logical propositions, which is valid and precise. Not hand wavey, and condescending like you are doing.
- hellofunk 9y agoLooks like all three of us are being a bit condescending here. Here is the actual logic: if people are not inherently bad at teaching, that means they are mostly effective at it, right? Were most of the teachers you've had in your life effective at teaching? Mine certainly were not. Perhaps you were having problems with the use of my word "nothing" instead of "mostly," which is just a colloquialism. Idioms of language rarely respond to logic in the way numbers do.
- marktangotango 9y agoIt's clear you are arguing for the sake of arguing and this community is worse for it.
- WalterBright 9y agoYou changed your wording from "highly effective" to "mostly effective". It's a crucial change, and so I infer you accepted my point :-)
- hellofunk 9y agoNo I didn't? It still says "highly."
- WalterBright 9y agoLook at your post I just replied to. It does not say "highly".
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