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One of my core grips with STEM education, mainly the math heavy part of it, which frankly is most of it, is that it is taught primarily by people who love math.

The people who loved application and practical solutions went to industry, the people who got off spending a weekend grinding a theoretical infinite resistor grid solution went into academia.

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Loving math is not necessarily a problem. But if you want others to love it too, you have to explain it in a way that makes them see the light.

A lot of STEM education is more along the lines of "take the rapid-fire calculus class, memorize a bunch of formulas, and then use them to find the transfer function of this weird circuit". It's not entirely useless, but it doesn't make you love the theory.

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