When you’re in college or in university, especially college in the earlier years, you’re given lectures and you’re given books to read, and you’re given some classroom instruction, and then you’re given tests. And in the tests, you’re asked questions. And if you are capable of remembering what was written in the book, and remembering what the teacher told you, and you can memorize these phrases and words, you probably can do pretty well in your tests.
You don’t have to have any insight, you don’t have to have any personal knowledge, you just have to be able to reiterate and regurgitate that which has been verbally fed to you by way of written words or by way of verbal speaking.
So, you can go through a course and be able to converse on what you’ve learned in that course, and yet not have any experiential knowledge whatsoever of that course. It’s like courses in Archeology where you don’t do any field work, or courses in Zoology where you don’t see any animals, or on, and on, and on.
And it’s like that. By the time you get to graduate school if you’re a doctor at least you work on a cadaver. But, for the most part, there’s no practical understanding of things…
