she can read the dictionary but not a history textbook? Mind you, I know the “memorize dry facts” bit can be boring, but as a history major I spent most of my classes discussing actual history sources with other majors with a bit of oversight from professors, but if we wandered down interesting roads that still pertained to the topic, or spent a class on a paragraph when they assigned 20pages, if it was a good discussion, they figured we were actually being historians and just made sure no one got shut out of the discussion by overeager classmates or something. They taught a special interest class each year where people could do gen ed requirement work or junior/senior level work for homework and tests- the 100-levels looked shocked the first few weeks (sorry if you’ve seen this before, I forget where I posted things online)
I think this might be something loosely related to OCD.
Origami Creativity Disorder?
she can read the dictionary but not a history textbook? Mind you, I know the “memorize dry facts” bit can be boring, but as a history major I spent most of my classes discussing actual history sources with other majors with a bit of oversight from professors, but if we wandered down interesting roads that still pertained to the topic, or spent a class on a paragraph when they assigned 20pages, if it was a good discussion, they figured we were actually being historians and just made sure no one got shut out of the discussion by overeager classmates or something. They taught a special interest class each year where people could do gen ed requirement work or junior/senior level work for homework and tests- the 100-levels looked shocked the first few weeks (sorry if you’ve seen this before, I forget where I posted things online)
Are you implying that a dictionary isn’t just dry facts?
What Millie said, second panel.