[hasmanean]

I struggled with pointers as a kid until I learned assembly. Then C pointers became trivial.

I think the problem is this: humans love to learn something when it simplifies their lives. That is the spirit of innovation.

A prerequisite for learning is that the student must have already been exposed to the messy complex primeval swamp before they can appreciate what learning has to offer. Where education gets stuck is that they take students with no prior exposure to the problem domain and then teach them the solution as an answer to a set of questions they had never asked.

The mind rebels against pre-canned solutions.

Students who have prior exposure to the problem domain pick it up rapidly. Schools aren’t built to take $$$$$ from students just to show them how not to do things…yet that’s what needed for a student to learn.