What Ought to be Taught?

Learning to be a consultant: what should be taught.

consultant: " a hospital doctor of the highest rank who is an expert in a particular area of medicine " 1 As noted in earlier articles and editorials in this series on education and training in pathology and laboratory Medicine, 2-6 we look more and more for evidence as to what should be taught, how it should be taught, and when it should be taught. Education and training are entering a new era...

What Everyone Ought to Know

WVHAT EVERYONE OUGHT TO KNOW. By Oliver T. Osborne. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill. This is a book on health, disease and accident, and should enable the fifteen-minute-a-day reader to talk impressively about a variety of things without thoroughly understanding any of them. One who is reasonably familiar with the fields of biology may wonder if it is useful to present to laymen a variety o...

What Must, Ought, Is Worth and May Not Be Done

The Praxis model of reasons for action takes choice among alternative courses of action to be a matter of what must, ought, is worth and may not be done. It envisages practical decision making systems being given their reasons for action as requirements, duties, rules of valuation, proscriptions and contingent circumstances in a knowledge base. The model’s principles of selection and automated ...

There ought to be a law?

Why, how and what should be taught about Formal Methods?

I started to teach formal methods (FM) in an undergraduate, mandatory course of a Computer Science degree at Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina) in 1998. After all these years I still have more questions than answers. In particular, I still can’t find satisfactory answers to questions I asked to myself back in 1998. However, at the same time, I still believe that I am doing the right th...