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Bush dumb? Kerry Dumber?

Dumber yet would be anybody equating GPA with intelligence. Grades have
a lot to do with motivation,
social issues, and (in what passes for education these days), the
ability to parrot back factoids on "exams" that do little to
demonstrate whether the student actually understands the material.

That's true for liberal art classes but in the applied fields like
engineering and math, you have to demonstrate that you not only understand
the material but actually have the mental ability to use the information.