While eccentric scientists aren’t good at teaching masses of people, if they grew up in a culture where they had seniors to look to as a mentor, they would naturally reproduce the relationship. The culture would pass the information along using institutional experience and knowledge, even if the individuals in the relationship doesn’t know how it works.

I think Joe is correct in noting that’s it’s a different skill set. Few teachers are going to be researchers or writers of the first water. But some are, and most have some competence.

"I tell ’em I always charge more for prophecy than I do for history." Robert Frost, via neo’s excerpt from one of his speeches

This is a vid about Jin Young and why he chose to go with Wing Chun, and not merely to settle for a shelf life of athleticism in martial arts, resigned to only teaching new guys afterwards.

They aren’t competitors, they’re a bunch of cowardly parasitic rabbits waiting for the two warriors to weaken and wound themselves, then they will call in an artillery strike, safely out of range, and then collect the loot.

The jungle of Earth has many survival methods and ways to gather resources, but that doesn’t mean symbiosis is the same as parasitism.

That’s competitive.

It means they are afraid of something and wish to be in safe rooms.

I’ve never understood why that cheap shot – “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

The cheap shot is made by those who are incompetent at either fields.

Rarely does a human ever exhibit talent at both teaching and being a specialist in a field. Some of it is lack of time, some of it is lack of interest.

Actually, generally speaking, Left activists are capable competitors.

Geoffrey Britain:
“many would rather eliminate the contest.”

That’s competitive.