I find it works moderately well for me, but then again I am usually operating in a community of peers where it’s not a given who is teaching whom. I ask questions that are designed to elicit clear thought about areas of uncertainty, and either my interlocutor answers them sensibly and I am enlightened, or they fail to and they are.
I can see where it would be different if I went into the exchange convinced I was the instructor.
I find it works moderately well for me, but then again I am usually operating in a community of peers where it’s not a given who is teaching whom. I ask questions that are designed to elicit clear thought about areas of uncertainty, and either my interlocutor answers them sensibly and I am enlightened, or they fail to and they are.
I can see where it would be different if I went into the exchange convinced I was the instructor.