Think about other important areas of human endeavor: driving a car, flying a plane, running a company, designing a house, teaching a child, curing a disease, se

Think about other important areas of human endeavor: driving a car, flying a plane, running a company, designing a house, teaching a child, curing a disease, selling insurance, fighting a lawsuit. driving a car, flying a plane: These are extremely poorly understood tasks, but fortunately parts of the average human brain are pretty good at things like that. running a company: Smart people fail at this all time. teaching a child: Why are so many people unable to remember the math they learned in grade school? Why are we engaged in a public debate about the value of teaching to standardized tests instead of some less well-defined but apparently better approach? curing a disease: Come on, new methods and approaches are constantly being invented in medicine! We have no general way of doing this.