At no point do you ever have to believe that your teacher's way is the proper way. You must always suspect that it's just an okay way that's better than what yo

At no point do you ever have to believe that your teacher's way is the proper way. You must always suspect that it's just an okay way that's better than what you know now. The article's key premise is false I'm afraid. If you don't play guitar at all, someone who can show you a few chords is better than no teacher at all. You know that person is no professional, but you set that aside and get out of them what you can. When I started programming my teacher so to speak was the BASIC interpreter on an 8 bit micro. Within a week I knew that BASIC was a piece of shit. I persisted in it anyway because I knew it would be a gateway to better things. It was in the machine's ROM so you can count on it to be there when you power up the thing without having to load anything from a disc. If you're a kid who reads voraciously, especially nonfiction, you will soon notice discrepancies and contradictions among different sources, including your schoolteachers. You realize that authority is fallible, and the responsibility lies with you to work out what is right.