Using Google required knowing what to look for, and how, and what sources were trustworthy, especially now that Google was forcing AI search results, and then also skill at translating something read into something physical.

Just because she was making connections that you didn't expect and not following your exact plotted course didn't make your teaching not valuable. Noctra might skip ahead to reading not long after learning her ABCs, but that didn't mean she instinctively grasped the concept of vowels.

Once again, she made him pause so she could write everything he was saying down, sometimes interrupting with a barrage of questions, sometimes making him repeat certain things until she was sure she understood it and could repeat it back to him in her own words. She took him up on his offer of the undercarriage and while it was clear she didn't give a fuck about the overall mechanics of the car, learning about how certain things affected how she could control the car were deemed necessary and important.

And once they got back into the car, she seemed much more confident and comfortable behind the wheel, sometimes muttering to herself little snippets of what he'd said to match it up to what was actually being done.