"I was slow. I was very slow and I was not quick at doing arithmetic. I remember particularly, when I was in Canada during the war years when I was about eight. The teacher there, she had little mental tests and you had to do a mental arithmetic – add seven, multiply by three, subtract four. I would simply lose track very quickly. She thought I was very stupid and decided to move me down."
This is actually not uncommon. Today most academic exam from Primary school to PhD qualify exam in US are all focused on testing muscle memory performances.
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