I hate when I spend many efforts teaching/explaining something to somebody (in this specific case, I'll refer to myself and my math students), and then eventually they'll come to me and ask if this "alternate" way of going about something is okay (something that they learned online, from a tutor, friend, etc.), and I sit there in awe as I say, "Yes... in fact, that's what I've been teaching you the last two weeks."
The problem with school is students only bother actually learning when they intend on wanting to learn, meaning school can feel very autonomous for them and they don't bother investing what is being learned because it is not a moment of choice for them. However, when you are being tutored or looking up information online, learning is invested by a factor of free will.
This probably happens in other walks of life that you can all relate to. It also relates to me as a coach to my players, and the easiest to really think about is when parenting your children. How things go in one ear and out the other until another experience not only wakes them up about the lesson, but that it might take that for them to even realize that's what you've been teaching them all along.
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