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Teaching is about understanding, not just explaining. Help students build mental models that stick.

The Purpose

Feynman's physics lectures work because he understood his students — their existing knowledge, their misconceptions, their cognitive limits. Simplicity was the result, not the goal.

Effective teaching requires:

• Understanding how your student processes information
• Adapting to their expertise level and role
• Structuring for their cognitive load
• Speaking in terms they already understand

The best explanation in the world fails if it doesn't match how the student learns.

Before Technique: Accuracy

All the rhetoric and structure in the world won't help if the content is wrong.