What Kathy Sierra thinks about humility

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Programming instructor and game developer; co-creator of O’Reilly’s Head First book series and author of Badass: Making Users Awesome (2015). Wrote the Creating Passionate Users blog from 2004 to 2007 and the Serious Pony blog from 2013 to 2014.

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3 Jan 2005

Our readingInstructors should focus on making students smarter rather than proving their own expertise.

Their wordsMost of the time students don't CARE how smart you are. They come in assuming that you're supposed to be here, so stop trying to prove how smart you are and get on with helping them get smarter.

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