I’m sorry but if you were teaching agriculture would you use oxen and a wooden plow? I had a 60-something professor in my Operations Management course in B-school. He addressed this issue by claiming that teaching obsolete/unnecessary processes (like arithmetic calculation) to grad students who learned the process in grade school was simply fraud. Background is fine but teach what graduates will be expected to know and do.
I’m sorry but if you were teaching agriculture would you use oxen and a wooden plow? I had a 60-something professor in my Operations Management course in B-school. He addressed this issue by claiming that teaching obsolete/unnecessary processes (like arithmetic calculation) to grad students who learned the process in grade school was simply fraud. Background is fine but teach what graduates will be expected to know and do.You do not have to teach students how make a few mouse clicks on a computer and then mindlessly copying the answer. Anybody can be taught that when it is needed. What takes time, and is hard, is to teach students how to think. And for that, you have to make them use their little brains. Unaided!