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Why should students be able to transfer ideas from one discipline to
another? For 12 years they are seldom if ever asked to do it. The math
teacher wouldn't think of applying math to the real world as this would
demean his subject.
    The Physics teacher presents Physics as though it
were handed down on tablets printed in mathematical equations, expecting
the student to find a numerical answer to the 5th decimal place when in
fact this probably NEVER happens in the real world. If we waited for
students to understand the mathematics necessary to understand Physics to
its deepest level, we would have at most 5 high school Physics students
in the USA and perhaps a dozen taking college Physics in the USA. Of
course that could have an advantage: we could stop teaching Physics (as
some colleges have done) and just demand the majority of the population to
"believe" what they are told by the ordained Physicists, similar to what
another institution asks people to do. I will believe that mathematics
has relevance to Physics when one of the "ordained" ones can calculate to
the nearest nonosecond when my tippy-top will come to rest.
    The physics teacher dismisses Chemistry and Biology as trivial and,
of course, those teachers do the same.
    The day it was decided that knowledge can be divided into
disciplines was the day education started down the road to pedantry.

Fred-