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Reading this comment, it felt like you were describing the education system. I'm waiting for someone to write a best-seller on the "Heat Theory of Education" [
by jstgord 6y ago
Reading this comment, it felt like you were describing the education system.
I'm waiting for someone to write a best-seller on the "Heat Theory of Education" [ Knowledge, in a given domain, flows from a knowledge-hot person to a knowledge-cool person, proportional to the differential, with some things between them acting as insulator or a conductor ]
It would be a nice bulwark against the pervasive meme that 'teaching is domain-less' aka "if you know how to teach you can teach anything"
- enkid 6y agoI've been studying teaching a lot lately, and one of the things all of the books say is that mastery of the material is required but not sufficient to be a good teacher. The other skills, which basically come down to organization and emotional intelligence seem to be universal. In other words teaching as a skill is domainless but being a good teacher requires subject mastery.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> the "Heat Theory of Education" [ Knowledge, in a given domain, flows from a knowledge-hot person to a knowledge-cool person, proportional to the differential Geez, that's some epic wishful thinking. A higher differential impedes the flow of knowledge.