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# Teaching to Learn
- URL: https://www.howardgray.net/teaching-to-learn/
- Published: 2026-08-18T08:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-18T07:59:59.000Z
- Description: The delivery is ten hours. The design took four people six months. Guess where the learning was.
- Author: Howard Gray
- Tags: Learning Innovation, #build

“Teaching is the best way to learn something.” I believed that for a while. Now I'm not so sure.

When we think of teaching we think of the delivery - showing up and, well, teaching.

The delivery isn't much of it at all.

The design is where the learning is.

The most recent programme we built at Wavetable is ten hours of teaching delivery. It had a team of four working on it for six months.

The learning came from designing the teaching. How do we get into this topic? What does this term actually mean? Which foundational models do we use? Where do the scaffolds go? How do we move from this concept to that one? Where do we change tempo, intensity, modality?

And a bazillion other questions. Levels of material, experience, depth, how concepts link together.

This is why I get a bee in my bonnet about so much of education. Online courses, sure, but plenty of the formal stuff too. Having knowledge doesn't mean you can teach it.

And being able to teach it doesn't mean you really know it.

So yes, teaching is the best way to learn something. If you're designing it too.