[sophacles]

I very strongly disagree. This applies to programming and engineering as well as math you know... There is way too much "there is a right answer" focus on undergrad. An aspect of working with newly graduated people I really dislike is that they always ask "am I doing it right?" or "What's the right way" and not even faintly grasping the idea when I tell them "I don't know, that's why we're doing it - if there was a known good solution, we'd just buy it and move on".

Thing is - it's not these kids' fault, once they do grok the notion of "not yet solved", they are great. It's that they spend the last 16 years being punished for getting something wrong, in a context where there is only a right answer or wrong answer, and that fact is known - even in subjective topics.