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Re: What is understanding?

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Cary Busby wrote:

In my own experience, I found that when I had to teach the concepts I
already understood, and explain them in several different ways, my own
understanding increased considerably.

Personally, I really liked this definition of understanding when I first saw
it. (Thanks, Bill.) I always told my students that, if they could explain
a concept to their siblings or friends, then they understood it.

According to what I rememeber:
The quote of Feynman (advice to himself on his last blackboard) was
"What I cannot create, I do not understand." (Phys Today 10 years ago)

In this approach the bar of understanding is much higher than "knowing how

Tim Burgess