International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2006, Volume 18, Number 3, 215-221 http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/ ISSN 1812-9129 Joy Murray University of Sydney
If you studied math, science, or engineering at a four-year college in the US, much of what you learned is useless, forgotten, or obsolete. All that money, all that time, all that wasted talent. If all we lost were a few years, no big deal. But the really
International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2006, Volume 18, Number 3, 215-221 http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/ ISSN 1812-9129 Joy Murray University of Sydney
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