The Upper Hand

The education system has always been and still is filled with teachers trying to help students do what the teachers themselves can already do.
An english teacher teaches students to memorize a poem he already can recite.
A math teacher teaches students to solve problems she already can do in her sleep.
A foreign language teacher teaches students to speak a language in which he already is fluent.

Upon entering the workforce, a graduate is often asked to do things his boss doesn’t know how to do, or develop a particular expertise nobody else in the company has. If the graduate becomes an entrepreneur, she may not even have a boss at all.

What if we could create more scenarios in which students managed to learn things we teachers didn’t even know ourselves?