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To go even further, I find a saying attributed to Aristotle to be quite true: "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." I find that true experts are
by pen2l 4y ago
To go even further, I find a saying attributed to Aristotle to be quite true: "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach."
I find that true experts are able to explain subject matter in their domain simply, they can ably distill complicated issues to their essence lest their pupil be bogged down in unnecessary side-details. I used to think Raymond Hettinger was just an awesome teacher because he could make certain programming tasks seem like things a 3rd grader could do with ease, then I discovered he's a big force behind the creation of py and he just sees and presents things at a very fundamental level.
- tptacek 4y agoSeems pretty unlikely that Aristotle said anything like that; all these epigrams are kind of silly, in that they're all stemming from something a fictional character said (or wrote) in a play. But I agree, it's cringe-y to see people try to dunk on teachers like this. There are good teachers and bad teachers like there are good and bad everythings; if you've had a good teacher for something before, it's hard for me to imagine that you'd take Shaw's character seriously with the "those who can" stuff.
- pvg 4y agoSeems pretty unlikely that Aristotle said anything like that You'd be surprised at the kind of thing that's been recovered from excavated tweet shards: https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/585859882869469184 https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/585859882869469184