Maybe so, maybe not. However I never had trouble when they tried to teach me things. And have heard good things from others who they taught.
One of the people who expressed this basic opinion to me is https://www.amazon.com/Randal-Schwartz/e/B000APA744. He is also someone whose expository abilities are widely recognized as being excellent. And he is also an example of a self-taught programmer with no degrees beyond graduating from high school.
To be fair, "bad teachers" is the simplest explanation. The alternative is to go chasing intricate definitions of exceptional intelligence and long-tailed aptitude disributions that take hella lot of explaining.
Maybe so, maybe not. However I never had trouble when they tried to teach me things. And have heard good things from others who they taught.
One of the people who expressed this basic opinion to me is https://www.amazon.com/Randal-Schwartz/e/B000APA744. He is also someone whose expository abilities are widely recognized as being excellent. And he is also an example of a self-taught programmer with no degrees beyond graduating from high school.