It's fairly common to mistake memorization for intelligence. One
thing I always stressed when teaching is that ideas are different than
words, and one must understand the ideas/concepts being translated
into and out of words in order to learn.
My ex-boss is a perfect example -- she got straight A's all the way
through to a bachelor's degree, but I don't think she every really
understood anything. Certainly NOT engineering or wastewater
treatment. I'm sure she was very frustrated because she had always
been told she was really smart, but I don't think repeating the words
in the correct order means all that much when you fail to understand
what the words mean in actual reality.
Between that and her habit of going and asking around until she got
the answer she wanted to hear and then blaming me when it was wrong
made for some fun years, believe me. Didn't help that I'm older than
her, either. She perfers good looking young men to get answers from...
Peter
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