> if you can't create another example or analogy off of the material you are supposed to be teaching, then you actually don't know it as well as you think This

> if you can't create another example or analogy off of the material you are supposed to be teaching, then you actually don't know it as well as you think This is actually a fairly good metric for telling a good teacher from a bad one. Constant use of analogies without making things too convoluted is a pretty good strategy to become an effective communicator. People love seeing/matching patterns, so if you give them patterns that they can associate with, that'll do like 90% of the communicating for you, then all you have to do is just fill in the blanks.