At schools and universities, they teach us how:
On the one hand, this is good: you get your knowledge "free and easy". On the other hand, it's demotivating: you say "This is magic. This is how it must be done, but I can't do magic" and give up trying to do things in your own way. And the goal should be exactly this: to learn to do things in your own way. It's elementary, my dear Watson, not everyone can write like Chekhov, and they don't have to.
Let us take for example Dick Fosbury. At school he was not at the level of the best jumpers, it was difficult for him to coordinate his movements. That is why, slowly and at the cost of a lot of sweat and severe injuries, he invented a new style of jumping. Today, everyone follows this style, but no one has proven it is optimal. There are probably other successful styles of high jumping, but they are waiting to be discovered by an outsider unable or unwilling to jump like Fosbury.
- great thinkers thought,
- great writers wrote their novels,
- great mathematicians proved their theorems,
- great singers sang their songs, and
- great runners ran.
On the one hand, this is good: you get your knowledge "free and easy". On the other hand, it's demotivating: you say "This is magic. This is how it must be done, but I can't do magic" and give up trying to do things in your own way. And the goal should be exactly this: to learn to do things in your own way. It's elementary, my dear Watson, not everyone can write like Chekhov, and they don't have to.
Let us take for example Dick Fosbury. At school he was not at the level of the best jumpers, it was difficult for him to coordinate his movements. That is why, slowly and at the cost of a lot of sweat and severe injuries, he invented a new style of jumping. Today, everyone follows this style, but no one has proven it is optimal. There are probably other successful styles of high jumping, but they are waiting to be discovered by an outsider unable or unwilling to jump like Fosbury.
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