I don't think you need to be "much" better read than someone to pull this off. I think I could lead a much better and smarter programmer than me through -- for

I don't think you need to be "much" better read than someone to pull this off. I think I could lead a much better and smarter programmer than me through -- for example -- monads, and stretch their brain a bit if they hadn't encountered them before, as part of an examination