What is understanding? Here’s what they think at Harvard:
“In a phrase, understanding is the ability to think and act flexibly with what one knows.”
In other words, understanding is putting information into
action, applying what we have learned in a practical way to our lives.
So did something go wrong with the 2008 presidential
election? Because everybody agrees President Obama is a pretty smart guy. Surely he had lots of “information” to put into action.