> It's like saying why don't schools teach problem solving Don't they do that at the lower grades ? (around 7~10 years old ?) Or in general I would see our ma

> It's like saying why don't schools teach problem solving Don't they do that at the lower grades ? (around 7~10 years old ?) Or in general I would see our math classes as lessons on how to approach complex problems ("prove that X"), hand what strategies are available to match what we know with what we don't know. > why don't schools teach intelligence. Define intelligence first. Otherwise, I went to an university that thought both science and engineering, and indeed we had sessions sitting in front of an editor, looking at core dumps and asking the assistant professor for advice. Like any other skills, there's ways to teach debugging.