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Just because you're a special snowflake (you aren't, but keep believing it if it works for you) doesn't mean that the discovery process isn't the best approach for teaching most people things. Hearing or reading something is the lowest form of learning and generally results in the lowest retention.

> thats just a huge waste of time.

Instilling knowledge and discovery rather than rote completion of work based on others' ideas is far from a "waste of time" for people who actually understand the learning process. Growth is generally desired in the business world, even if it results in a short term hit.



Please don't cross into personal attack or otherwise break the site guidelines. We had to ask you this once already recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36274535) and you've been doing it elsewhere too, unfortunately. That's not cool.

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> Just because you're a special snowflake (you aren't, but keep believing it if it works for you)

Someone who makes a comment like this, isn't arguing in good faith, or even intelligently. So I will give this comment the respect it deserves: none.


Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

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