Do not commit to memory what can be easily looked up who's quote is this?

Hi,

After having dropped out of my 4th or 5th college, I was finally diagnosed as ADHD as the age of 30. In my adult quest to heal myself, I began to research memory and cognitive issues because I always felt so inadequate to all the people who built cumulative knowledge in their minds and could quickly retrieve it and apply it effortlessly. In my research I came upon this quote and it freed me. The quote as I have applied it to my life as my personal mantra has morphed into

Why commit to memory what you can reference? Very freeing... between smart phones and. the internet, I never have to feel unintelligent again. Rote memory is a very small part of intelligence. Real intelligence is what you do with the knowledge you have, the knowledge you look up or even the ownership of the knowledge you don't. Intelligence is about healthy rational debate, not data retrieval.

Thank you for asking the question because I had always attributed the quote to Albert Schweitzer. The quote is actually

"Never commit to memory what can be easily looked up in books" and it was said by Albert Einstein, revered as a genius yet reported to have had ADHD himself.

He was brilliant in more ways than for which he was given credit, smart enough to know genius is in the process of working toward something meaningful, not the filing cabinet of knowledge you carry around.

I had an elder employee when I worked for the courts in NJ who frustrated many of the young people on staff because she struggled with computers. Her work was flawless though and she could calculate in her like no one I've ever seen before.

One day she took me aside and thanked me for standing up for her. She said, she struggled with math for many years and her mother asked her boss to recommend a tutor. He told her to bring the child in. So off she went to Princeton University where she was personally totured in math by Albert Einstein himself!

What an amazing experience that must have been!