[AnimalMuppet]

Some people think top-down (general to specific); some people think bottom up (specific to general). You cannot specialize your teaching for one group or the other - not unless you know that you only have one kind of people that you're teaching.

[atoav]

Yeah but with top down we are talking about the question how it fits into the students known world not about how it is defined in the most basal abstract way.