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Originally Posted by Seahawk

Anyone with a teenager and a lawn who pays to have it mowed should be asked to leave the country...

I understand the sentiment except that I wanted my daughter to associate doing a good job with getting a good reward. She didn't get an allowance for things like keeping her room clean but we chose some household chores that were optional and she would get paid for doing them. It creates a work ethic...

Originally Posted by red-beard

I agree there are a lot of hands off engineers. My last couple of years in College was in a small liberal arts college that offered engineering. A lot of those people could "do the problems" but didn't really understand the concepts.

I always wondered why anyone needs to understand the concept or do the math without a calculator (heck, I had to learn to use a slide rule!). I realized that "doing the problem" is to be in maintenance mode. When something blows up or, for there to be advancement and breakthroughs, there has to be critical thinking and that requires understanding.