Am I the only one...

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 135615

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at y...>
wrote:
>
> Milz wrote:
> "It takes REAL intelligence to be able to think outside of the box
> with the knowledge base and tools available."
> 
><SNIP>
>
>Del wrote:
>
>Yes, but FIRST they had to LEARN that knowledge! Can't you see that
>Hermione is only in the *learning phase* for now? She is learning
>everything she can, because this time in her life is the perfect time
>to do that. She is at school, she's got a library available, she's
>got professors to ask questions to, and all this extra studying can
>even help in her primary occupation: school work. She is at Hogwarts
>to STUDY, NOT to invent. But once she's learned all she can, I really
>see no sign that she won't be able to apply all that knowledge
>creatively in whatever field she chooses to work in.
>
Gatta:

I'm with Del on this one. Hermione is smart enough to know that she
needs a foundation before she can build. Thinking outside the box is
all very well, but first you have to have a box to think outside of.
I've worked with thinking-outside-the-box exponents who still give me
nightmares, like the gal who designed a layout for our online
documentation that customers called up and complained about because it
gave them splitting headaches; she also rewrote our principal
reference manual so that you had to know what a function did before
you could look it up to find out what it did... (and customers called
and complained about that too). Please, all you witches and wizards
out there--before you start exploring ways of doing it better, learn
how to do it right!