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This is general problem with modern public founded education system - it prizes memorization of repetitive schemes - as it's easy to check on the mass scale who is able to memorize these schemes. It's several magnitudes harder to check who really is a material for a scientist among same large population of candidates. I was educated in top university in my Central European country and to this day cannot shake off memories of people who passed calculus exams by memorizing solutions of integrals instead of understanding how to solve them. It was a general scheme - mediocre students interested only in "getting paper" aka diploma were passing exams mostly flawless some of them even get scholarships[sic(k)!] while people interested in actually understanding material and doing projects by their own (most students were making projects in groups and changing only minor details and teachers were pretending they do not see that) were struggling within that system. As the system has memorization without understanding and cheating as a fundamental of it's construction and people who resist following that pathological scheme were simply penalized. Attempts to rationalize with academic teachers in many cases resulted in absurd remarks of "everyone have equal requirements for passing classes". Puke inducing every time I think about that.