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1 " I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. " There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction. "
2 " ... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in geometry and algebra, I was merely following memorized rules, plugging in numbers and dutifully crunching out answers by rote, with no real grasp of the significance of what I was doing or its usefulness in solving real-world problems. Worse, I knew the depth of my own ignorance, and I lived in fear that my lack of comprehension would be discovered and I would be exposed as an academic fraud -- psychologists call this " imposter syndrome" . "
