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by p-christ 1364 days ago
> eg. good teaching is not giving the final answers to learner, which should seem faster, but letting the learner arrive at their answers

Why is that "good" teaching? ---> Its because if they arrive at the answer themselves then both the answer & the process for figuring it out will be more ingrained in their long-term memory!

> Instead, learning the content rapidly (meanwhile forgetting a lot of the content), getting a whole picture, and gradually gain more understanding repeating the process using different textbooks/courses, is a much more faster way of learning.

I agree to an extent. It's inefficient to try and remember everything beyond a point. But spaced repetition is very efficient e.g. with Save All it might only take you 5 minutes to remember something for 10 years... so it is much more efficient than you think to try and remember more things.