The Real Reason You Learn A Lesson Better When You Teach It

Business Insider: by Annie Murphy Paul.

Our minds often work best in interaction with other people’s minds, and there are particular kinds of relationships that are especially good at evoking our intelligence.

Learning, and thinking, are deeply social activities.

This is not the traditional view (Rodin’s iconic sculpture, “The Thinker,” is conspicuously alone in his chin-on-fist musings), but it’s the view that is emerging out of several decades of social science research.

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