I think you're misreading the quote (and the quote is probably distorted/decontextualized). Teaching a subject qualitatively upgrades your understanding of it, whether or not you're any good at teaching. It forces you to re-understand it with new parts of your brain.
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I ran into him again ten years later—I can’t imagine in what circumstances—and he remembered me (!) and said something like “that was a crazy time, wasn’t it? I have no idea what that was all about.” I remember we had a nice discussion of sundials.
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I also had no idea who he was or why at the time, and realized only much later that he’s a Significant Dude.
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