Preface

In order to save myself from criticisms, I want to preface the entry below. I talk about this question of abstractness in education at the end. It sounds a little pretentious. So I want to clarify that I'm not suggesting that theoretical endeavors are any better than the concrete, applied, or computational. The point is simply to propose an alternate educational model, to question whether our current model is really the best. I talk a lot about "abstraction" because it seems to be the most complete and general way of teaching people about ideas and how to solve problems (in my opinion). This I take to be the general goal of education.