However one need not give up teaching/pedagogy after developing such insights, but rather may adapt to fit the instruction to the readiness and ability of the student, so that each may learn in their zone of proximal development, and grow to be their personal best.
I mean that the way I was explaining it would only work for a miniature me or someone very similar -- even my younger siblings and parents would not be able to do it (and I have tried). The idea was essentially to ground insights in common sense, like mechanics would follow quite naturally from throwing a ball, which everyone has mastered. If you can dissect the process of throwing a ball, you realize that "obviously" you apply a force in a certain direction, and gravity acts downwards at a constant rate; if it didn't, you would never be able to make an accurate shot. In elastic collisions, the angle of incidence is "obviously" equal to the angle of reflection. And so on. So it takes zero time to learn these things because they follow as a natural consequence of what you already know. Rather, you already
know it before it's taught, and you just need to realize that you know it.
But I didn't realize that this wasn't "common knowledge" as I had expected, and not everyone has that physical intuition. A lot of people can't make the connection instinctively while playing billiards that you simply need to map out lines and execute it accurately, for example. And those who already possess that intuition would not need it to be told to them explicitly. They would also have immediately, instinctively made the connection.
So, in a lot of cases, I realized that I was trying to map out "common sense" in a way that was incontrovertible. Those who had it wouldn't need to be taught, and those who didn't would seldom immediately see or understand it, and so for them the current (read slow) system is appropriate. Either way, I haven't achieved anything new which I was hoping for at the time (I wanted to reform the institution of teaching, even back then I had high ambitions lol). As of now, I would probably just redirect people to established meta-analyses and courses on learning because they cover most of what I figured out.
