I also think there's a huge issue of "practicality" missing in so much education. Both the "inner" and "outer" parts could totally stand a swift kick in the ass from what's actually useful. For example: understanding thermodynamics, knowing about free energies and how entropy determines what will happen in a system? Useful. Actually having to memorize how to calculate a Gibbs Free Energy? Useless, because nobody in the fucking world uses Gibbs Free Energy (except for professors who just want to have a circlejerk) because what we really care about is what actually came out of the reactor and what it does and not what its Free Energy is.
The thing about other countries has also been recently on my mind. Mostly because I'm terrified for the U.S. Where are all the fucking American grad students? They're not in the fucking sciences and engineering as far as I can see.
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Date: 2008-02-20 05:11 pm (UTC)The thing about other countries has also been recently on my mind. Mostly because I'm terrified for the U.S. Where are all the fucking American grad students? They're not in the fucking sciences and engineering as far as I can see.