The contemporary American poet Matthea Harvey once said Teaching is a great way to keep learning and we can't agree more. Ask any teacher you know: they will tell you that they learned much more about their subjects by teaching them.
It makes sense, right? When you study something you have to find a way to insert that information into your head. A way that works for you. But when you teach someone else, maybe that person would need some extra clarification from your side to understand that information. She would ask you questions about it that you might've never asked yourself, but now you have to answer them. And by doing that, that piece of information is getting absorbed into your mind in new, different ways. You can picture that process like the information being a tree that grows its multiple roots deep into your mind.
So, if you don't learn something until you have to teach it to someone else...well...become a teacher. If you have the opportunity, teach someone a concept you’ve been studying: a classmate, a younger sister or brother, a parent. Encourage them to make questions and try to answer them in the best, simplest way. If you don’t have someone to teach, teach to an imaginary person. Try to do it out loud, if you can.
Do you have a situation where you could teach something you're studying to someone? Who? Which course?
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