I'm impressed more by the comments than the article itself. Some people insist they make progress and listen 3x, but nobody showed any practical measurements of own skills.
A personal example: I used to listen to a famous linguist, and everything seemed nice and clear, but then I decided to go in details on one particular question (I think accentuantion), and opened his book. It was like if you showed your programming code to a farmer: incomprehensible stream of linguistic terms. My complacency was shattered in 1 minute.
There's some scientific evidence as well:
1. Lectures are proved to be a bad way to learn things. https://www.science.org/content/article/lectures-arent-just-...
2. A nice experiment showing that if you enjoy a lesson, it usually means you make no progress, meanwhile hard practice actually does make you progress: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/39/19251
I suppose, those who insist they learn something, do make progress at memorizing trivia, but not at practical skills or any systematic understanding.
This kind of knowledge feels firm only until it's tested by practical task or by serious questioning.
A personal example: I used to listen to a famous linguist, and everything seemed nice and clear, but then I decided to go in details on one particular question (I think accentuantion), and opened his book. It was like if you showed your programming code to a farmer: incomprehensible stream of linguistic terms. My complacency was shattered in 1 minute.
There's some scientific evidence as well:
1. Lectures are proved to be a bad way to learn things. https://www.science.org/content/article/lectures-arent-just-...
2. A nice experiment showing that if you enjoy a lesson, it usually means you make no progress, meanwhile hard practice actually does make you progress: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/39/19251
I suppose, those who insist they learn something, do make progress at memorizing trivia, but not at practical skills or any systematic understanding.
This kind of knowledge feels firm only until it's tested by practical task or by serious questioning.