<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:43 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">OK now, engineers and scientists (but not math teachers) this next question is for you please: since you took and passed that test, have you ever integrated by parts (or did partial fraction decomposition, or did a LaPlace transform or any of that cool stuff) in your job, or even as a real-life analysis, even once, or used in the line of duty any of that stuff you learned how to do?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. Not often, but more times than I can remember.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Both Bills, Adrian, Anders, Rafal, anyone else following this perplexing and critically important thread, with these considerations in mind, what should we be teaching the next generation, when, how and why?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure the "what" is as important as the "how". But perhaps, how to learn - in and of itself - and why (to counter the increasingly large anti-education memeplex: learning is not, in and of itself, an inherently bad nor necessarily painful thing). <br></div></div></div></div>