More on teaching: Whilst books can assist, and it is possible with much effort to learn from books alone, far more reliably it is a tutor or instructor and hands-on practice which are most useful. (See also: explicit vs. tacit knowledge.)

Self-paced book-based education, as pictured in the advertisement here, or similar equivalents such as audiobooks, taped or recorded lectures, filmstrips and video, as well as most computer-based education methods, suffer similarly. Despite some dynamic elements, they are fundamentally static, and don't read the student while the student reads them.

The more technically commplex the method, the harder it is to prepare materials, and the more technical factors detract from them.

Likewise, econnomics of production and distribution generally favour lower-quality or less-appropriate works.

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