[Viliam1234]

> No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

That's called "zone of proximal development" in pedagogy.

However, "that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge" is often a consequence of things that were revealed to you previously.

When you learn, you could probably make any specific step alone, but you cannot make all the steps alone.

[skydhash]

I think it more about about the difference between knowledge and understanding. You accumulate knowledge by yourself or with the help of a teacher. But the leap from knowledge to understanding is always done by your own mind. The teacher’s help is only a better presentation of the information. Understanding is a step by step process, you’re just not constrained to a single path. And most of the times they converge and overlap.

The nice thing about learning, the more you do it, the easier it becomes.