Andymark Churros

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I also want to weigh-in on the 'build it and see if it breaks' philosphy that's being encouraged here.


That is NOT SCIENCE. What Science IS is using previous observation to determine what will happen deductively. The reason we engineers make books of statistics about materials and books of equations about stresses is because science works. If we design something that will work because we've used science, we've taught the kids the value of STEM.

if we design something with the guess that it might break or might not, then we didn't teach math, we didn't teach use of historical empirical statistics and instead we've taught 'trial and error.'

Not a good way to be an engineer.

Don't get me wrong, I was a 'farmboy' and stuff on a farm is most always pushed till it's about to break--or does. Seeing how stuff breaks is a great learning experience and I recommend it.

But engineering --doing the math--works better in the real world and I think that's what we're supposed to be teaching the kids.