9 Jun
2010
9 Jun
'10
3:47 p.m.
On 9 Jun 2010 at 18:08, Joachim Thiemann wrote:
My own feeling is that actually here you missed to
learn something in
school that is vital. And that is an aspect of human interaction, or
rather, interpreting unspoken demands. Clearly, a successful student
would know what the teacher wants, and solve the problem in that
fashion, rather than taking the literal meaning (and/or possibly more
efficient solution) of the problem statement.
The object of education is the method rather than the answer, which
is generally the converse of what's encountered in the commercial
world.
I'm reminded of Alexander Calandra's story "Angels on a Pin":
http://www.snopes.com/college/info/baromart.htm
--Chuck
(Would that we now had "Sputnik-panicked classrooms" in America!)