>If you have someone who needs to learn how to quickly, you don't teach them theory

Elon would disagree: "One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to."

https://lifehacker.com/elon-musk-on-learning-new-things-view...