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Re:Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math... by musicale on Saturday March 30, 2024 @06:13PM (#39879192)
> TAs can be great, but they're likely someone with limited pedagogical experience.

Professors can be great, but they're likely to be experts and researchers who find the course material trivially easy – and have long forgotten what it was like to learn it for the first time as an absolute beginner.

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Re:Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math... by ethbr1 on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @12:30AM (#39902394)
Well said. Empathy is not a prerequisite of being brilliant.

Sometimes the two coexist, allowing an expert to communicate material to the mind of a beginner, and those are the amazing teachers.

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