Cin- If we have a goal,I think we all learn "backwards". You start with what you want to do, and then figure out how to get there. And you develop the tools you need as you go. Sometimes this gets messy and inefficient. The problem with instruction is that it done from the other direction. You teach someone how to use tools that they do not see the point in learning how to use. It requires a degree of trust on the stundent's part that their time is not being wasted. It is difficult to retain information gotten by cook book methods. It is just easier to explain if it is done beginning to end, instead of end to beginning, which is the way we learned it.