All learning works the same way; it’s easier for us to grasp new knowledge and skills if we connect them to what we already know.
It’s the reason great teachers commonly use analogies, similes, and comparisons. They know the best path to make us learn something new is to relate it to what’s already in our heads.
Learning builds upon itself: we start small and add to it as we progress. It’s the idea of learning to walk before learning to run.
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