> I hear you; but teaching deep expertise is really hard. No it's not; this is the point of apprenticeship. It's just not compatible with the educational insti

> I hear you; but teaching deep expertise is really hard. No it's not; this is the point of apprenticeship. It's just not compatible with the educational institutions people actually pay for. > I think the learner would just have to go lick a lot of things for themself. This is not contradictory. If your idea of teaching is just lecturing at people and occasionally verifying specific knowledge, obviously they're not going to learn very much. Your job as a teacher is to facilitate a growth curve of increasingly more difficult and unwieldy problems to solve.