I used to think that the historical development of a subject can not possibly be the best way to learn a new topic because it is so path dependent and random. B

I used to think that the historical development of a subject can not possibly be the best way to learn a new topic because it is so path dependent and random. But with experience I have seen that there are very few instances where educators mixed up the historical timeline of a subject and made it more easily absorbable. It still baffles me that this is even the case for abstract fields like math