I enjoyed the read but there is one thing troubling me, those two paragraphs that seem to contradict themselves :
But the thing that she has to teach, physics 101, is still part of what she knows. At some point, she learnt it, and while it might be embedded in her brain in a somewhat different way from mine or yours, it’s still the same physics.
What the above working out example showcases is not teachers forgetting or having a weird perspective on the thing they have to teach, but teachers never having learnt that thing.
You say she learned it in §1 and then that she never learned it in §2. There must be something I’m missing.
Maybe weird writing on my end, the working out example that I’m referring is the section on professional athletes (aka them never necessarily having learnt how to do casual health-focused workouts). While physics teacher might have forgotten how it is not to know physics 101, but she still did learn physics 101 at some point.
I enjoyed the read but there is one thing troubling me, those two paragraphs that seem to contradict themselves :
You say she learned it in §1 and then that she never learned it in §2. There must be something I’m missing.
Maybe weird writing on my end, the
working out examplethat I’m referring is the section on professional athletes (aka them never necessarily having learnt how to do casual health-focused workouts). While physics teacher might have forgotten how it is not to know physics 101, but she still did learn physics 101 at some point.Hopefully that makes it more clear?
Definitely, thank you! :)