He was not wrong. We forget stuff all the time and in huge quantities. I can't even remember my own phone number half of the time. Those guys could recite subs

He was not wrong. We forget stuff all the time and in huge quantities. I can't even remember my own phone number half of the time. Those guys could recite substantial portions of the Homeric epics. It's just that there is more to intelligence than rote memorization. That's the good news. The bad news is that this amorphous "more" was "critical thinking" and we are starting to outsource it.