Everyone can learn anything.

What differs is speed. Intelligence is not about what you know, but how quickly you can build a mental model, see the system, and ask the right questions to fill gaps.

But here is the bottleneck:

when you enter a new domain, you do not know what you do not know.

So you cannot ask the right questions.

That is why knowledge often beats raw intelligence.

Even a very smart person struggles in a new field because the search space is unclear.

A good tutor solves this.

Not by dumping information, but by guiding:

This is exactly where AI should excel.

A real AI tutor should:

Not just answers.

Optimized questioning.