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> As they pursue the topic they start to get down into the details, although probably never learn to do it fully independently.

It's hard to claim one has mastered a subject without independent command of its fundamentals. A less charitable take on this future is that students only learn to hand-wave answers and correspondingly cannot evaluate statements beyond "sounds about right".

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