10 Jun
2010
10 Jun
'10
10:48 a.m.
On 9 Jun 2010 at 18:08, Joachim Thiemann wrote:
I would agree. (Heck, if I want to measure a capacitor in my workshop, I
generally jsut use my multimeter...)
However, which is the better student? The person who goes and reads
several extra books, finds out an accurate method of measuring something
that is actually used in the real world, and who ecplains how it works
(which iw what I did), or the person who regurgitates the section from
the recomended text book describing a method which is totally useless?
-tony
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.