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Nov 11, 2011 at 11:01 comment added jwenting there's 2 groups of teachers: those who are passionate about their subject and those who hate it but can't do anything else to earn a living. For the first group it's probably true that teaching improves their skills, for the second it just reaffirms their own inadequacies.
Sep 28, 2011 at 7:50 comment added Péter Török @Falcon, a different version of the last sentence is "Those who can't teach, manage" ;-)
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Sep 27, 2011 at 18:02 comment added Falcon Nice statistics, +1. My experiences are largely the same. We have a saying here: Those who can, do. Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, teach sports. Just kidding :)
Sep 27, 2011 at 17:08 comment added maple_shaft @ShawnD. I figured as much... because you know what they say, 84% of statistics are made up. I think more importantly it should be taken for the larger message. I retain a lot more of what I teach than what I read. This is a given to me as a natural observation of myself. That was the point I trying to make.
Sep 27, 2011 at 17:02 comment added Shawn D. Maybe you should stop referring to that table. willatworklearning.com/2006/05/people_remember.html
Sep 27, 2011 at 16:39 comment added Gratzy I refer to that table often
Sep 27, 2011 at 16:35 comment added treecoder +1. My voting limit is reached :( Please point me to the link if any.
Sep 27, 2011 at 16:27 history answered maple_shaft CC BY-SA 3.0