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Yes. If you're optimizing for fast answers over learning, it's a good tool.

Neither.

I optimize for finding the answer to a given question, without knowing beforehand if it will be found online or in an research article or in a book.

And I mean finding the right answer, before you mention "learning" like it is something that can't be done using computers.

Learning can certainly be done using computers. But also not as effectively as stepping away from the answer machine to puzzle it out yourself.

You are not the only person familiar with Feynman's strategy to approach a new topic.

This isn't coming from Feynman. There's decades of research into how education works.

Whatever. It's about the method, not about who used it first.

Except finding the answer to a question has never been what schooling is about. Otherwise we would hand kids a calculator at age 5 and completely skip teaching arithmetic.

By the answers I'm getting here, it seems education is all about how to strawman any argument :D

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