I agree with your point wholeheartedly. This makes me think of "knowledge transfers" in software companies where a meeting is set up between the outgoing engineer/team and the new engineer/team where all knowledge about some project is transferred in the duration of that meeting. For the participating engineers, it's usually clear that this doesn't work but management still expects the new team to be able to basically pick up where the old team left off. If we were able to transfer knowledge gained over months or years of work within a few hours, we would revolutionize scientific advancement and the education industry. Maybe one day that will be possible but for now it is ridiculous to think that reading any kind of complex information once is sufficient to not only memorize it but to truly understand it.
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