Jeff Pulver at the Jeff Pulver Blog asked a great question today:
Which leads me to today’s question of the day: Looking at what you are involved with these days on a day-to-day basis, did you learn more of what you need to know to do this from something you learned in school, or from something you taught yourself?
I firmly believe that “school” – structured education – can serve only one real purpose. It should teach us how to learn.
My reality is that I learned far more outside of structured education than in. Having said that I do credit structured education for helping me learn how to learn. I also credit structured education with exposing me to a broad variety of concepts and igniting passion for those things that would shape my career.
As stated in this post I have great concern that we are losing a generation of engineers becase we are failing to ignite middle and high schools students passion for engineering, science and math. Please get involoved.