Thank you. This is the short version.
A Mathematician's Lament is longer. I've read both. I was looking for a math professor's opinion of it.
If you have read it, what do you think of his premise?
As a practicing research scientist and engineer I have always regarded math as language, not art. I don't really disagree with his premise but the only useful thing I learned in school was typing. Everything else was a rehash of what I had learned on my own. in other words I was bored to tears in school.
I never had a math teacher who understood math. It wasn't till after I left school and started doing actual work that math made sense. Then I devoured whatever I needed to know to solve the current problem. I have tried to teach individuals general techniques for problem solving and had some success.