| >In 5th grade everyone talked about how Algebra was hard. When I got to Algebra, it was pretty easy. I was very surprised! Of course my dad had to explain it to me, because my teacher was incapable of explaining it. Surely the concept of outliers, survivorship bias, and statistical noise is easy too then! >Of course my dad had to explain it to me, because my teacher was incapable of explaining it. 10th grade, same thing with calculus. Thank god my dad knew calculus and was patient. Because my teacher did not. So, how do we produce millions of capable teachers (as opposed to the non-capable current bunch), with extra patience, and each dedicated to one or a tiny group of students? Because this is not about how subject X is easy, but about how subject X can be made easy (or easier) under ideal conditions. And even then, only if we assume you were a typical student, and not especially gifted or motivated. >Programming is no different. We need to stop infantalizing people. Most humans are incredibly capable. What if the problem is not how to teach motivated people under ideal conditions, but how to motivate or even how to teach unmotivated people, under all kinds of conditions (e.g. working class family, problematic household, poor school district, etc). |
E.G: stop promoting growth so that we eventually get a system we can manage more easily.
Or change the way media communicate so that people focus their efforts in a different direction.
Or relocate budgets from war to education and research.
And so on.