A quote:

While infants acquire skills by imitation and trial and error, in our formal instruction we
start with rules. The rules, however, seem to give way to more flexible responses as we become
skilled. We should therefore be suspicious of the cognitivist assumption that, as we become
experts, our rules become unconscious. Indeed, our experience suggests that rules are like
training wheels. We may need such aids when learning to ride a bicycle, but we must eventually
set them aside if we are to become skilled cyclists. To assume that the rules we once consciously
followed become unconscious is like assuming that, when we finally learn to ride a bike, the
training wheels that were required for us to be able to ride in the first place must have become
invisible. The actual phenomenon suggests that to become experts we must switch from
detached rule-following to a more involved and situation-specific way of coping.