Comment by ocular-rockular

Good luck finding that practice on certain topics. I hate to say it but GPT 4o has done a better job of breaking down problems and explaining them (granted at times incorrectly... thats where studying with other people comes in) for my qual practice than any of the profs or the useless texts ever did.

We talk about scaffolding and the importance of pedagogy in math education yet none of that exists at higher levels. In my case it's literally been the blind leading the blind. It's a horrible environment to learn in. I say this as someone who has tackled some really tough material with no issue in the past thanks to having that hierarchy you mentioned. When that doesn't exist or there is nothing else, the process truly stalls. So sadly, I will take the crackhead over nothing.

Then again, maybe I just hate what I'm studying which is it's own problem.