The protégé effect: How mentors learn from mentoring1 The protégé effect describes how we learn by teaching others. Multiple experiments demonstrate that, to get our heads around a complex topic, explaining it to someone else can be highly effective. One such experiment took a class of schoolchildren studying the biological progress of a fever. Half…
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