To be honest, I wasn't smart enough to wrap my head around Schank's semantic graphs. However, was/am inspired by this: "best way to make a machine think is to first make it teach" [1]
> "best way to make a machine think is to first make it teach"
That applies to humans too. Richard Feynman said that if you can't explain something to someone else you don't really understand it yourself.
"Feynman was a truly great teacher. He prided himself on being able to devise ways to explain even the most profound ideas to beginning students. Once, I said to him, “Dick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics.” Sizing up his audience perfectly, Feynman said, “I’ll prepare a freshman lecture on it.” But he came back a few days later to say, “I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t reduce it to the freshman level. That means we don’t really understand it.”
[1] https://www.wired.com/1994/08/schank/