Academic physics education
Published by admin March 12th, 2008 in Physics, Education, Doctors of PhilosophyOh we don’t actually apply paint until high school,” I was told by the students. “In seventh grade we mostly study colors and applicators.” They showed me a worksheet. On one side were swatches of color with blank spaces next to them. They were told to write in the names. “I like painting,” one of them remarked, “they tell me what to do and I do it. It’s easy!
It sounds a lot like academic physics education.
Thanks, I quite enjoyed the Lockhart article. I guess I was fortunate to (a) have been born in another era and (b) have had a good high school math teacher (although I was sufficiently bored by the pace that I read novels in most classes, which the teacher tolerated so long as I continued correcting errors when I glanced up).
Glad you liked it.