The promise of college for our generation

[Ben Lauer]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Education is failing. Nobody wants to stare at a board full of greek letters and complicated equations all day. Nobody wants to labor through a 1000 page math book solving hundreds of integrals. It isn't working. We aren't learning.

Education needs to become more applied and exciting. Right now, at least to me, it is quite boring.

I disagree. With my education I can look at a mass spring system and see a second order linear differential equation with dampening coefficient zeta. When I look at a water tank draining, I see a second order non linear differential equation. You want to know what the greatest part is? Not that I see it, or that I know I can solve it, but that every time I see it, I KNOW it, and I KNOW what it will do. Knowledge is great, anyway we get it.

I thought high school was a waste, and I thought I didn't learn anything important stuff in freshman year of college. I am 5 weeks from the end of my sophomore year, and I am really excited for the next two year because I see the potential for what I can learn and KNOW! And those first 5 years of my secondary schooling where necessary in order to learn at the new level.

I think that applying the knowledge can happen properly until you think you know what is going to happen, and realized why you were wrong.