[Mygirlsmom]

Agreed. There's a difference between acquired information and applied knowledge, between the ability to know and the ability to think.

There's a huge gap between "it works on paper" and " I can make it work in reality", and many what I call "hyper-educated" people, can't traverse that gap.

As I tell my kids, frequently.....reality wins - every time. The sooner you learn to deal with that, the better.

[Sherman Logan]

Variant I like: Perception wins all the battles, reality wins all the wars.