It's hard to sit still and have full-formed insights delivered to you.

For example, receiving a lecture from your professor, while you sit there, still, and just absorb.

You are fully passive, just a receiver of a pre-formed thing, created by someone else.

It can work, if:

it's a topic that the receiver is intrinsically interested in.

Not that they are obligated to care about

The receiver respects their teacher unconditionally.

They think they have something valuable they should want to hear, even if they don't understand it at first.

But if either of those are even a little not true, it can be excruciating

Like having someone berate you when you're stuck in traffic.

Ideally instead you get to be doing it yourself, feeling the wind in your hair, developing your own knowhow, and then the teacher is seasoning your knowhow, improving it, redirecting it a bit.

In that case you are co-creating the knowhow, you have some ownership of it, and you can feel the teacher improving it.

Even if the teacher is wildly ahead of the student, sometimes the learning gets in a student's head better if the student is allowed to move under their own power.

It feels slower in the moment, but only if you assumed a student that was perfectly motivated and perfectly deferential, which rarely happens.