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user-inactivated  ·  3193 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I no longer understand my PhD dissertation (and what this means for Mathematics Education)

It also seems wrong to me that the author finds it useful that all he got from his education is problem-solving ability. That is ignoring the fact that in another major he may have learned that same problem-solving as well as helping the world in a pragmatic way. They aren't mutually exclusive.