Instructors teaching problem-solving techniques for which students have no intellectual need is at best wasting their time. I certainly do not feel like educato

Instructors teaching problem-solving techniques for which students have no intellectual need is at best wasting their time. I certainly do not feel like educators care about my education or me as a person when I am forced to learn something merely so that I can be tested on it, rather than because it is intellectually useful. Students are a great deal more perceptive of this than you might think. At a fundamental level - if there is no intellectual need for a concept, how do you justify teaching it? You might say, "well, because the state or national standards test for it." But then why is it on those tests?