I agree but I think there is a limit to this. You can tell when someone is tossing the effort of learning over the fence but you have to understand people have different learning styles. Reading documentation doesn't work for everyone, hence pod casts and training videos. Pair programming combines visual and auditory information exchange that help to reinforce concepts and methods. Basically what I'm saying is, not everyone is on YOUR level of expertise and they may not learn the same way you do, so don't be a dick and use RTFM as your catch-all for swatting away social interactions. That dumb ass that wants you to show them what a SQL insert looks like for the 4th time will probably get promoted to product manager. :)