Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach (Albert Einstein).
Sounds so obvious…you don’t teach babies to speak by explaining how to move all the organs involved in speech: you start by talking to them, and once they get the basics you explain a bit and move to the next stage of examples.
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The Chinese take this concept to the max: the character for “to learn” and “to copy” is the same… just ask Siemens (and others…)!
@Jorge,
I never knew that, but that’s an interesting fact.
And the quote is a great quote.