Nobel economist Milton Friedman once said: “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” What I find economics fascinating is its comprehensive use of quantitative and scientific methods in identifying the impact of different social policies, and very often the results obtained from these methods suggest something very different from what most people would imagine.

An iterative approach to problem solving can help students grow and intimately comprehend their unique direction and develop criterion for evaluation of their work based on qualitative and quantitative explorations.