Essay on bad experience that taught you a lesson
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When I started studying it didn’t take long until I was confused and disappointed.
my the lecturer dwelled endlessly on trivialities and rushes with lightning speed through everything complicated. Still, I continued visiting the lectures, simply because I thought that this is how you learn at the university level. I thought somehow something will stick subconsciously even though I didn’t learn anything consciously. The main reason I went to the lectures was that I feared I would miss something crucial if I didn’t go.
I also discovered that most textbooks are boring and useless. When you go the library and read the textbook your professor recommended, you usually end up more confused. As a beginner student, you only know a few textbooks and chances are high that they are all horrible.
Today I know that I wouldn’t have missed anything if I would have skipped the lectures. Today I know that there is no way to magically learn something subconsciously. Today I know why lectures and textbooks are typically boring and useless.
The thing that lectures and most textbooks have in common is that they are made by experts. Only after at least a decade of intensive research, you get into a position where you are allowed to give lectures. Analogously, usually, only textbooks written by experts are published or at least recommended by professors.
This sounds reasonable. To teach something you must be an expert. To write a book on something you must be an expert. What’s the problem?
The problem here is the more we know about some subject, the more we think about it in abstract terms. This isn’t a bad thing per so. Abstraction allows us to compress vast amounts of knowledge into manageable pieces. The evolution towards abstraction is the reason why every mature field has its own jargon. If you are an expert, this jargon is immensely helpful, because it allows you to express things correctly and concisely.
However, abstract explanations and jargon are big obstacles for beginners. Beginners need simple words, pictures, and analogies.
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