Education multiplicatively

When a high school student or a university student comes to study at a teacher, he often unknowingly expects the teacher to teach him the subject without much effort on the part of the student. In an ideal world, the student would be given a magic pill with the inscription “Matan”, he washed it down with vodka and bravely went to the exam. In the real world, you can do almost as well - only without a pill and with a different exam result.


Sensible students do not hope for a magic tablet and even understand that the main thing is not to pass the exam, but to understand the subject, which may be useful in later life. To do this, they are looking for a good teacher and begin to understand the subject themselves, as a result, in terms of their knowledge and skills, they overtake their passive comrades by an order of magnitude. Just like in a situation with developers: a good developer can be more productive than a bad one 100 or more times, and a very bad project participant will still do some harm.

Why is this happening? Assume that:

"The knowledge gained = knowledge that the teacher gave * knowledge that the student studied himself"

From this simplest formula, it can be seen that if at least one of the teacher-student pair does not work, then the efficiency of training is drastically reduced.

What can be advised for effective training (everything is simple and far from new):

• Find a good teacher. How to do it: talk to the senior course; ask him for a list of references that is worth reading before his course; quietly go to his lecture (even if you figure out, you will have time to hear something).
• Find good literature. To do this, it is enough to find one good book, and then "all good books refer to each other."
• To study, because “education is multiplicative” and no matter how good a teacher is, if you multiply it by zero, you will get zero as a result.