A 1959 Comment on Engineering Education

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10. I certainly missed the point in high school.

Although I was generally a good student, I recall not recognizing that the Sciences were basically exercises in applied mathematics. Further, I thought of mathematics as a pure abstraction. I don't know whether to criticize my teachers for not driving the point home or to blame myself for an immature brain. The latter case, if true, may extend to other young people. Maybe they grow out of it. I did, albeit slowly.

My parents has very low level formal educations and certainly couldn't have helped. They knew next to nothing about science and math.