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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8446206" data-attributes="member: 4534">I directly experienced this effect in graduate school giving lectures and from my time at a museum playing docent.  Sometimes I'd be asked questions I didn't know the answer to and I'd do a little research so I could answer the next person who asked it.  But even if I knew the answer, often times being asked to talk about it would help me think about it in a different way.  In the soft, well, I've never pretended history was a science, but nobody taught me how to teach either.  "You know the subject.  Just jump in there and tell them about it."  I know how you feel.  I'd still be working at the museum if I could have made a decent living.</blockquote>