It is fashionable now to dismiss book smarts. Machines remember everything, the argument runs. Algorithms retrieve, synthesize, and recommend. Why burden the mind with facts, methods, and history when the cloud holds the sum of human knowledge and the phone can summon it in seconds? Street smarts, practical cunning, and real-time improvisation are what matter. […]
Books Are the Foundation
Why Book Smarts Build Civilizations and Keep Them Standing
