- how similar the process of good drawing is to good learning
- Rigor (permanent inked lines) helps cement ideas after the intuitive pencil structure has been put into place
We know writers need drafts. But do we allow drafts in learning? Are we so concerned with reproducing inked results that we discourage or ignore the pencil?
- Beginners need the pencil marks — experts who’ve internalized them sometimes forget that.
- True learning happens when people can recreate that structure in their minds
- I want to share the pencil sketches that evolved into the elephant, instead of erasing them and pretending that I, too, can just draw from memory.
Don't learn by tracing: find (or invent!) those pencil structures.