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I think group study is best done in a peer learning way. Teachers generally hurt, not help. But the idea of a tutor though..l good fit for study. Tutors help you study, teachers do something closer to providing air cover and efficient strategic knowledge bombing.
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Closest I came to “tutor” was advising a bunch of undergrad theses at Cornell as a postdoc. It’s different from grad-level advising and classroom teaching. US grad TA-ing is also not like real tutoring, even though the sessions are called tutorials.
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It’s funny that tutoring, test-prep, and study all have negative valences today due to assimilation into late modern hyper-competitive industrial workforce prep. Historically these patterns seem to have been the core of educational culture itself, not a steroid-like ancillary.
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There’s a weird tension here though. You need solitary study time too. Depending on the subject it may be the core. Solitary study is to group study what reverie/reflection is to solitary study. There is a stack of modes here.
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