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Tools do not determine how they will be used. Therefore, it’s not the
tool that counts, it’s your reaction to the tool. Programming tools can
be used to program without understanding, or they can be used to free
the programmer’s mind and hands for tasks that can’t be made routine.
Pattern 2 managers buy tools to force programmers to [...]

Stupid educationists have invented for the educational process the profoundly inadequate term “knowledge transfer”, suggesting a uni-directional stream of knowledge towards an accumulating recipient, who becomes monotonically more knowledgeable. I consider it a caricature at best. The trouble is that it may have stuck in some of your minds, thereby creating an extra barrier for [...]