Lawrence Bank’s article, Is Structural Engineering Education Sustainable? (STRUCTURE, February 2015), raises interesting issues and exposes the separation between education and practice. For one thing, structural engineering education is constantly evolving. The notion that today’s design is based on books from the 1950s and 1960s ignores the reality that the better texts are philosophically well-thought-out, present fundamental structural behavior, and follow with how codes and standards interpret this behavior to protect life safety. …