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> And teaching is not about getting people to say aha. Thats just performance or entertainment.

Thank you. Reading the article will not in fact give you an easier time at the Jackson Problem sets.

I think many people who think this would have helped them back in the day have simply forgotten what the actual hard part of the degree was.




Are you sure the hard part is the most important part?


Yes. There's a difference between thinking you understand something and having to prove it via problems.

Often that's how I discover I didn't really understand something at all.




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