Indeed, Rota's approach to teaching seems to mirror the application of mathematics in general...
He acknowledges that concepts have prerequisites, and that certain topics are misleading or dead ends. You might even call the act of building a pedagogical scope and sequence for a topic graph traversal!
I wish I could have taken one of his classes. I wonder if there are other mathemetician/philosophers out there who have taken the problem of teaching as seriously as the math itself.
He acknowledges that concepts have prerequisites, and that certain topics are misleading or dead ends. You might even call the act of building a pedagogical scope and sequence for a topic graph traversal!
I wish I could have taken one of his classes. I wonder if there are other mathemetician/philosophers out there who have taken the problem of teaching as seriously as the math itself.