Comment Skeptical about teaching in general (Score 2, Interesting) 620
"Instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those few instances where it is almost entirely superfluous." --Gibbon
I went far in school, specializing in math and physics. I give my teachers a lot of credit, but I had to extract everything from them.
I think there's nothing teachers can do to help poor students. I think methodology is a dead end.