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What an Apprenticeship Teaches That a Course Cannot

Structured courses transfer information efficiently. Apprenticeship transfers something else, more slowly.

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By Mira Dev6 min readmetered
What an Apprenticeship Teaches That a Course Cannot

A course can teach a great deal in a short time. An apprenticeship, by comparison, is slow, inefficient, and often frustrating.

It is also capable of transferring something a course structurally cannot: the accumulated, half-articulated judgment of someone who has done the thing for decades, encountered its edge cases, and developed instincts too situational to compress into a syllabus.

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