I feel this in my bones. As a child, I remember telling my mother something along the lines of

Of course I photocopied the relevant section of the text book and gave it in as my homework. The teacher asked for the information. What was I supposed to do?

Oh. Well, I didn’t understand I was supposed to get something out of it, I just did what I was told. You have to tell me why, or I won’t do it.

I never really considered that NT people might not operate like that.