[FrustratedMonky]

Agree.

And not joking, I think there should be engineering classes taught with slide rule, to get students to learn old school ability to work with orders of magnitude in their head.

Of course students have to learn new things too. But do think we are really losing some of the basic skills, methods of thinking, that you get with the old methods.

Like tracking down some pointer errors, it takes time, it's a difficult struggle, but you do learn a lot about how things work.

Have classes with 'new' tech, then have classes that require 'old' tech. Exams without calculators, or make an Assembly language class mandatory.