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The same mentality that tries to cheat also doesn't understand that actually knowing the material is crucial to actually doing the job.
Sure, they'll argue that we only use about 2 weeks of accumulated college knowledge in our professional careers, and that claim apparently checks out; but it's the very last few weeks that we've built on the years of pre-req that we use later on. I.e it's just the tip of the iceberg, but it's the tip of a fucking iceberg.
It also disregards all the secondary and tertiary benefits to "knowing the material" and those benefits of doing the work to get there.
Like honing your ability to research, skills in pulling the actual useful info out of diverse sources of vastly differing quality, speed at which you can pick up new ideas and concepts, etc.
Part of what you're learning is how to do the boring grunt work of learning itself, and honing your skills at that through experience
The most boring days of my job are when I just need to follow well written directions or documentation. The real test is when you're past that and you need to combine multiple things to meet your specific situation, when no one who has figured it out before ever documented it in one easy place.