probably not the sentence I would remember, nor the summary of it all.

What did he try to achieve? Proving you can accelerate the learning process and he did so by example with a MIT graduate level. Even though, it's from MIT, it is a graduate level, nothing more ...

I think the described method is interesting for acceleration or in lean terms, reducing any waste, or even optimizing the learning process. Pick one ...

BTW, 10.000 hours is not from Norvig but from Gladwell, "Outliers".

“Igonvalue” Gladwell is not responsible for the 10,000 hours meme either. The single person who has done most for the expertise research literature is K. Anders Ericsson but he didn't do it alone. To associate intellectuals and researchers with Gladwell is to do them a disservice.

/Redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris/ ... you're right!

Gladwell widespread the idea to the public though.

And Norvig made usage of this meme for the programming field in a short summary.