the principle of directness asserts that it’s actually while doing the thing you want to get good at when much of learning takes place. The exceptions to this rule are rarer than they may first appear, and therefore directness has been a thorny problem in the side of education for over a century.

A successful learning experience doesn’t just involve a learner knowing more—it’s about them being able to do more with that knowledge. • Sometimes a learner’s main gap is knowledge, but more frequently knowledge and information are just the supplies the learner needs to develop skills. • Use the question “Is it reasonable to think that someone can

No amount of "knowledge transfer" will help unless you can use the knowledge to decide what to do in that difficult situation.