Instead, what’s necessary for genius historically is early engagement with, not access to, intellectual subjects.
— ❐ Why we stopped making Einsteins explaining why tutoring children produces expertise, but access to math tutorials on yt does not
The lectures-as-warmup model is a post-hoc rationalization, but it does gesture at a deep theory about cognition: to understand something, you must actively engage with it. That notion, taken seriously, would utterly transform classrooms.