lj·rk on Nostr: After having spent a /lot/ of time teaching, I'm quite convinced that most of the ...
After having spent a /lot/ of time teaching, I'm quite convinced that most of the "I'm bad at X" things are faults of the teacher, not the student.
I've seen people who "could never do math" rock their 1.0 in exams, understand and do quite tricky cryptography or do some crazy functional programming leveraging higher algebra.
All that was required was a change of teacher, proper teaching method and some time (mostly to overcome the "I can't do this" thinking).
Of course some people are better or worse at some things. But too often this is an excuse of bad teachers not to improve and effectively victim blaming.
(There's also the issue that modern teaching institutions have the wrong goals and too little time to actually enable good teaching on a wide scale.)
I've seen people who "could never do math" rock their 1.0 in exams, understand and do quite tricky cryptography or do some crazy functional programming leveraging higher algebra.
All that was required was a change of teacher, proper teaching method and some time (mostly to overcome the "I can't do this" thinking).
Of course some people are better or worse at some things. But too often this is an excuse of bad teachers not to improve and effectively victim blaming.
(There's also the issue that modern teaching institutions have the wrong goals and too little time to actually enable good teaching on a wide scale.)