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Originally posted by MBiddy
Yes, I do go to school to learn facts. So does everyone. You can't innovate if you don't have the facts on how things work. Sure, you can spit back facts word-for-word but in a lot of classes you can't get by just doing that.
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There's a big difference between learning facts and learning ideas. For example, just about everyone knows that the volume of a sphere is given by:
4/3*pi*r^3
But do you know where this equation comes from? If not, how could you ever find the volume of some new geometric shape you didn't have an equation for? The key is comprehension, not just memorization.
I think the same thing applies to FIRST. I really couldn't care less what the torque was on our robot nor do I care about which wires go where. What I care about is
why each wire goes where it does and
why each gear is where it is.