Ah. Education.

Muse #431 - applied practice

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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rote knowledge is not understanding. At best it is ineffective miseducation. Understanding requires practice and building competence.