experts

At a family dinner, this weekend I expressed my frustration (again) with the public school system's "rules of writing" that my children come home with. One of my brothers told me he had been reading a book about beginners versus experts and according to the book, beginners are always looking for rules, whereas experts have internalized all the rules and all the exceptions and tend to work by "intution." This makes many experts very bad teachers for beginners, supposedly.

I thought this was ...