One of my strongest takeaways from the Bee this week is that it was a showcase for why critical thinking matters more than ever.
So much of what the kids do up there isn’t rote memorization—it’s using their insane prep to solve words like puzzles (using etymology, patterns) in real time.
Mina Kimes
Great feat and congratulations but as a skill it is less necessary in the age of AI and automatic spell check. Kinda like the multiplication tables.
