Intuitive Textbooks

• difference in volume between a math book and blackboard writing by a professor makes no sense when textbooks pile stuff on and on and an instructor always presents it in a few simple steps.

• instruction without hands on experience gaining is useless in education

• PI school goals: engineering, science, and technology. No electives crap. Career education starts in high school. All non-essential courses are not important and are not graded/evaluated. Consolidate high school and associate's program. Career evaluation/tryouts/planning/advice. Real-life projects required. Young “education-science”-trained instructors instead of old obsolete chalk-on-blackboard professors. All math is applied and heavily computerized and textbook-lookup based. Students are required to read the chapter before coming to class so instructor never has to write notes on the whiteboard. Additional online resources lk remote courses or online textbooks required.

• troubled students should be the one to improve teaching material. Idiots have not realized yet that asking students themselves is the best way to improve the education system instead of paying people to do “scientific research”. Especially idiotic is the “trick question” phenomenon where the instructor seemingly does a good job inside the classroom working on basic problems, but when the test comes much more involved problems with much more steps or unclear approach methods are shown. The biggest problem is the fact that students are taught basic methods duplicated in the most textbooks instead of showing how to breakdown the problem into the methods they learn in the course, or how this graphically fits in with stuff they already learned or need to learn in the future. More critically, this can be used to both enforce a will in the student to tackle the later material, or graphically find out which of the past material/methods they might want to revisit. Another interesting phenomenon is the “dumb question”, or more specifically, the lack of courage of good/above average students to ask the obvious dumb question. One more problem for the future is the inability and lack of guidance of an instructor by students while ensuring anonymity and low volume of questions. However, submission of such questions/suggestions/steers electronically and overview of them by a dedicated assistant/student can be made to work.

• Since the US will soon be passed over by the number of students taught by memorization of textbooks, then why the hell the US education system is still trying to use that method of education since all of the jobs will no longer be there? They must teach methods and utilize resources unique to US in order to ensure lack of competition with students from another country. Methods: visualization, brainstorming, working in teams, using computers/software, utilizing other departments/people, communication (esp electronic), electronic mentoring/resources, development of creative thinking, inter-departmental thinking and disciplines/majors, IP/previous knowledge on internet/books/computers, exams based on dissemination of large and complex problems instead of trick-based “hard” questions that were never memorized during the class. Resources: innovation, VCs, entrepreneurship, patents, ideas, business, internet-based services, internet-based english-language knowledge and information, use of scientific research, focus groups, and internet user content instead of actual product “engineering”

• redo college textbooks for self guided study, take all the crap out. Take a challenge exam instead of wasting time on a course.

• ws length of college textbooks should be the length of blackboard notes

• PI education testing: like outlined elsewhere, all testing will be done with “supervised” problem solving by a student in groups of 1-4 with graduated students supervising the tests. This will solve the problem of a jerk professor sitting idle in front of 50 students who are scribbling with pencils on paper on a limited time basis. Instead, students are given full access to textbooks, computers, internet, other student resources, etc and have to solve a difficult real world problem in front of the supervising person. Grading is on whether the student grasped the knowledge and practical experience in interpreting and applying the course material.

• proof that education is stupid: how useful is all "science" education if students don't know what the north star is, or how to operate a computer, or repair their car, or use consumer electronics, or have a basic tax and investment knowledge???

• how the hell can schools release students without those students learning the base minimum of computers??? knowledge on the level of how USB, ethernet operates, & how to install an extra HD. Laugh at ancient system & replace crap courses with community college based/PI funded computer courses & my "teach yourself" courseware

• doc student who got question wrong bc they overthought it for a valid reason should be rewarded

• Remove stupidity from school learning. Constants + equations always available

• "Necessary steps" approach to education (as in mathematics, programming, etc)

• about doing it the paper and pencil way in education: crap we do in circuits, etc should only be solved by computer since we will never do this in RL.

• my future: show students what different professions do. Poss movie series. Have teachers recognize potential and ask

• education: no grades. Get out from the chair. Get out and get hands on.

• job of the teacher – every student must know fundamental concepts. But it's up to the nature on memorization and concept recognition on the test, problems, and real life.

Syndrome of a 1000-page book. It needs:

• To be read many times
• Keep a notebook
• Listen to a lecturer (which automatically limits the amount of material)
• Retell everything yourself
• Make a couple of TI-89 progs
• Practice!