[preommr]

What stories are you guys talking about?

You guys are making it seem like this is a common occurence and I've never heard of anything like this. I've never heard of teachers frequently sharing personalized stories that are also true to help people learn a subject.

In fact, the opposite, most subjects like math or physics have made-up problems to isolate and make simple the concept they're trying to teach. Adding a constraint for realism would just be needlessly complicated.

Also not scalable - if these stories are so effective, why not put them in a book to share with everyone?

The only stories any of my teachers ever shared with me were historical events that were grounded in reality.

Are there just a whole bunch of educational institutions that are teaching things around a campfire and a long-form stories like in ancient times?

[fragmede]

Yeah. It's wild isn't it? Surprisingly, there are also subjects outside of math and physics!