learning by explaining

> [Kraig Grady, TD 273.17]
> I don't get alot of the ideas or understand why people are
> doing some of the things they are doing. I just ask those
> which seem to might bare some fruit. Sometimes, when I am
> asked, it helps me get things clearer in my own mind.

Reminds me a lot of the opening sentence in Schoenberg's
preface to his _Harmonielehre_: 'This book I have learned
from my students.'.

I too find it very true that explaining difficult concepts
to others helps make them clearer in my own mind, and when
explaining a previous topic again to someone else, I often
find new angles that extrapolate off into other directions.

-monz

Joseph L. Monzo Philadelphia monz@juno.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
|"...I had broken thru the lattice barrier..."|
| - Erv Wilson |
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