But the success of a model is ultimately tested by its utility. Many of the ideas in math are considered right because the overall paradigm has worked time and again. All of education is therefore a way of teaching us the paradigms that work. There is one problem though. Some of these paradigms are quite complicated.
Many people lose sight of the end goal.
The end goal is to do something with those models that we have built, not to prove how complicated a model that we have built, or to show that one model may be better than some other model. Psychology, for instance, is not inferior to biology or physics. We build models in order to accomplish something. But these models are not restricted to academics. Many of these models reside as part of our personality.