Reply To: CORE course? No. Not as written.

Hi Joe,

Thanks for giving your honest and in-depth feedback. 

I do really understand where you’re coming from, but this is not a teaching method I personally believe in and thus not something I did for this course. I strongly believe that you learn not in following, but in putting in the effort yourself. I’ve been teaching people stuff all my life; whether it was economics to my classmates who couldn’t follow along, tutoring math and geography, teaching Adobe programs to people and now having a YT channel that teaches/helps people with Blender for 4 years.

No matter the subject the same problem persisted throughout all of it; if I teach someone that 1+1=2 but I don’t explain the concept of addition, they learn nothing except the words ‘one plus one equals two’. They don’t understand why, but just know that it does. And although I don’t think this is necessarily a bad thing, I do also believe that this doesn’t help them in the long run.

Instead I try to teach concept, and by giving people examples they can’t replicate 1 on 1 in a course, they are required to put in the work on a project of their own, or just like I gave as an example, in one of Blender’s demo files. But then still; the fact they can’t copy me 1 on 1 and have to run into their own set of problems and hurdles is what will embed the knowledge in their heads. 

Most people make a donut, then don’t know where to go next or what to do. Not because they don’t know what they want to do, but mainly because they’ve just performed the trick of making a donut, without actually understanding what they did. 

I hope this clarifies my perspective on the course and information provided, but again I also understand this might not be the best fit for everyone. It’s just what I believe in.

Cheers, Kaizen