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A comment on Those Who Can Do, Can’t Teach.

Re:Those Who Can Do, Can’t Teach by rzzzt on Sunday August 26, 2018 @07:48AM (#17845496)
It is also hard to formalize and convey to someone else what one already knows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge
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Re:Those Who Can Do, Can’t Teach by rectang on Sunday August 26, 2018 @07:58AM (#17845534)
The formulation I like is the "curse of knowledge".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

But overcoming the "curse of knowledge" is exactly what makes for good teachers, good designers, good communicators, and so on!

This idea that you better you are at "teach", the worse you are at "do" and vice versa is A) a sharp dig at academia, and B) a result of the cognitive dissonance we feel when someone is extraordinarily good at something valuable but has underdeveloped teaching skills.

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