Sal Khan took me back to my undergraduate education as he developed this workhorse of electrical engineering systems analysis. It's the first video of his I ever watched.
YOUTUBE OiNh2DswFt4 Uploaded on Sep 4, 2008. Introduction to the Laplace Transform. Khan Academy.
Khan's words and my thoughts were not much different from my experience 40 years earlier. This is proven material that should be learned. EE's take four terms of calculus, all High-Enrollment Courses.
Contrast: The power to understand and predict the quantities of the world should not be restricted to those with a freakish knack for manipulating abstract symbols. Bret Victor. post 
Likewise, the power to communicate around the world at the speed of light should not be restricted to those with a freakish knack for hearing words in morse code.