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I'd argue for the existence of a third stat, Reflection. This would be the ability to analyze acquired information and create elastic principles out of it, allowing knowledge to be used in novel ways.
Someone can acquire all the book knowledge in the world, or learn at the feet of the wisest elders, but many otherwise brilliant people can't apply what they've learned outside of the context they learned it in. Reflection turns fragile knowledge into flexible systems and concepts that can be applied elsewhere.
The downside is that reflection takes time - many times more than rote learning - and free time is the ultimate luxury in modern civilization. Our education systems try to cram as much knowledge into students' heads as quickly as possible, then wonders why graduates are so inept when they encounter anything unfamiliar.
(And maybe that's the real reason so many cultures venerate elders: it's not just that they carry the accumulated experience of several decades, but that once retired they finally had the time to look back and reflect on their life.)