Reply to In Partial Defense of Calculating Titration Curves

摘要

Teachers demand that texts include what they have always taught, but this is not a criterion for what they ought to teach. I have sympathized elsewhere (1) with the need of textbook authors to meet the demands of the market. However, we should persuade teachers to demand the curriculum that students need rather than what our profession wants to teach. If teaching something that is otherwise valueless provides an opportunity to emphasize something that is taught in another part of the curriculum, this is an advantage; but the teacher may question whether the advantage outweighs the time spent learning that otherwise valueless subject.