A lot of this is covered and contributes by Adam Grant's "Hidden Potential"
Learned that different learning styles was bunk (visual vs auditory). Also, experts are the worst teachers, they are far removed from being in your shoes and do not provide the empathy or the correct scaffolding to start newcomers down the path of understanding a topic.
The biggest success for pedagogy impact is study groups, and tutoring while or immediately after learning something (the accountability of needing to teach someone bumps.your motivation to understand the nuances, plus the act of teaching helps you remember)
In my experience those are pretend experts, that are either shy, either also not comfortable with the material.
The one that really understand the material don't hesitate to tell you their real understanding and thoughts pattern even if those are not strictly correct and could never be written down in a publication.
But that's exactly how you catch the deep understanding fast. If the prof. is not giving you that it'll take much more time to get an in depth understanding of the course.
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