They say in the name of the GRA that a lamdan is someone who sits and learns,and not someone who is smart and knows how to learn.He proves it from the word gazlan,if a person is smart and knows how to steal but doesn’t steal he isn’t called a gazlan until he actually does it.
But you also need to know how to learn, because you can’t learn properly without knowing how to. So the original argument of “who is considered a lamdan” will continue, just with the added condition that he DOES learn.