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> TAs can be great, but they're likely someone with limited pedagogical experience. Professors can be great, but they're likely to be experts and researchers w
by musicale 3y ago
> TAs can be great, but they're likely someone with limited pedagogical experience.
Professors can be great, but they're likely to be experts and researchers who find the course material trivially easy – and have long forgotten what it was like to learn it for the first time as an absolute beginner.
- ethbr1 3y agoWell said. Empathy is not a prerequisite of being brilliant. Sometimes the two coexist, allowing an expert to communicate material to the mind of a beginner, and those are the amazing teachers.