Is learning C really a must for a programmer?

Many have this opinion. Somehow, by doing manual memory management allocation and garbage mangement one would become a better programmer.

I have little experience in C mainly because I can write terser and more readable code in Racket or Haskell. However I'm willing to give C a try just to learn these lessons that everybody keeps talking.

But I have a sneaking suspicion that I already know most of what is there to know. Can you list some useful lessons that a typical high level code dweller would be oblivious of?

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Well that's like bits and pieces of rubber and steel in an envelope handed to me, when I wanted a wheel. It would take too long time to put it back together. If you on the other hand knew about the properties and interfaces of a wheel, you'd just hand it to me, not dismantling it first. We'd speak the same language and understand each other living in the same world, on the same terms. Things would be a smooth ride.