Pragmatics before theory.
Usually theory comes from practice. Books are written after experiments.
Dear Engineer:
Support the popular freedom and sovereignty of your mind. Own it.
Books are not written first and theory is not put forth first without reference to concrete experience.
Colleges and Universities that focus first hand on keen and rigorous observation rather than hitching to some modern string theory will do better by their young engineers.
All theory, to be useful in the near present, needs a solid practical component. Other theories are for naught; they suck up grant money and do little else other than waste time and make one feel righteous.
In Zen and Tao, things are of themselves so, mutually arising. Good engineering is where theory and practice happen together, mutually. One supports and criticizes the other in both directions.
Theory, practice; practice, theory…
Books written with only theory in mind have no immediate consequence. What are the theories good for in the present? Therefore, if the aim is to improve, aid in the now, we all must be students of the pragmatic.
FIT-