Don’t steal the revelation

Learning is a journey of incompetence.

First, we realize that there’s something we don’t know.

Then we see that we’re going to be better at it, and we’re not good at it yet.

Then we figure it out and we’ve succeeded.

Repeat.

When we pre-process the information and simply test people on it, there’s no real learning going on. We become what we do, and if we actually solve the riddle, we’re more likely to have it stick than if someone simply tells us the answer.

The job of the teacher is to create the conditions for the student to explore their incompetence long enough to learn something useful.