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The way I heard this phrased by a famous professor was: unless you can explain your subject to a truck driver you don't actually understand it. A lot of people get pseudo-educations where they don't actually think critically about their material to learn it through making sense of it; rather than just memorize it and then learn ways to spam the information or algorithims they learned so they don't actually have to analyze them and understand or defend them. It's very sad education has been debased like this by all the money they was put into it through unlimited federal student loans that had no accountability for delivering an education.

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