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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: C Programming Tutorial on Youtube
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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:

> On 12/10/16 02:29, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>> On Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 11:46:04 PM UTC+1, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> <snip>
>>> Complete beginners should not be
>>> told lies by their teachers.
>>>
>> People who understand a subject well but don't know much about
>> teaching often criticise teachers for mistakes or inaccuracies.
>
> People who understand teaching well but don't know much about their
> subject often end up teaching people stuff that's Just Wrong,
> resulting in the perpetuation of myths.

Well ... up to a point.

Its perfectly reasonable to teach primary school children

"The Earth orbits the Sun",

rather than attempt to get them to parse

"The Earth and Sun orbit their mutual center of gravity",

or

"The Earth and Sun follow straight lines through four dimensional
space-time, which has curvature induced by the mass of all the planets
in the existence"