It seems like a really bad idea to me. Learning from primary sources more-or-less forces you to learn things in the order they were discovered, which in turn r

It seems like a really bad idea to me. Learning from primary sources more-or-less forces you to learn things in the order they were discovered, which in turn requires you to repeat and then correct every mistake that was made along the way. This is still largely how physics is taught, and Eliezer Yudkowsky correctly points out how unwise this is: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/quantum-explana.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/quantum-explana.html (look for the paragraph that starts with "The order in which humanity discovered things"). In the case of discrete math, this approach would leave you with a lot of silly misconceptions like that the axioms of Boolean logic are "laws of thought".