The question is... what kind of "smarts"?
Smart as in analytical thinking smart, or smart as in reciting the correct answers as recorded through a government approved text book?
Most schools rarely ever teach you to be analytical "smart", because it causes the individuals to ask too many questions.
It's not the job of public schools to raise inquiring minds. Rather they prefer to mold cattle who will be deluded enough to believe in the mindset that if you work hard enough you'll eventually achieve your "dreams".
When in reality all you're actually doing is contributing to a capitalistic machine that eats up & spits out the people on the bottom. Whereas the people at the top get to sit, relax, & enjoy the fruits of all your hard labour.
While there are rare cases of those who started from the bottom, and eventually made it to the top.
The majority who are at the top were either born into it, knew the right people, or stepped over everybody to get where they are. (There's also a 4rth way. Married into it.)
As I said before, we as a people are controlled indirectly due to us only having access to one side of the story.
The burden I bear with my family name is one of the best examples that come to mind when I think of mind control through lack of sufficient data.
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However nearly all schools, especially American schools teach you to believe that book smarts is merely the ability to recite pre written answers. In other words, schools condition you to behave like a parrot.
Most of the time you are hardly ever required to derive a concrete understanding of how the answers came to be in the first place.
Schools often teach reality, that is alien from the actual objective reality.
(People such as Malcom X, and Immortal Technique actually learned, & comprehended more about the state of reality while they were in the library jail than they ever did when they were enrolled in school.)
Where am I getting at with all of this?
I'm explaining how the people that Akura is talking shit about got into Uni in the first place.
They knew how to recite the right answers. I suspect that some of them actually used a cheat sheet in order to pass.
These people are actually prize students of what public schools adhere to mold.
Parrots, or more correctly "Drones"
Actually I'm not too sure, because Akura is from Australia.
I have no idea what the edumacation system is like down in the pacific.
Like wearing a watch, you can check the time of the day anytime, anywhere without having to look for a clock
This is actually pretty funny. If it were intended as sarcasm.