Flutterby™! : Feynman and learning vs regurgitating

How to Use the Feynman Technique to Identify Pseudoscience:

I finally figured out a way to test whether you have taught an idea or you have only taught a definition. Test it this way: You say, 'Without using the new word which you have just learned, try to rephrase what you have just learned in your own language. Without using the word "energy," tell me what you know now about the dog's motion.' You cannot. So you learned nothing about science. That may be all right. You may not want to learn something about science right away. You have to learn definitions. But for the very first lesson, is that not possibly destructive?

This. This is so much at the heart of the failures in education around software development. And a lot of other things.