Re: Is competence in physics as a requirement for teachers of physics?

["Donald E. Simanek" <dsimanek@eagle.lhup.edu>]

On Wed, 5 Nov 1997 herbgottlieb@juno.com wrote:

....

> It was a really cruel trick to play on the teacher .....  but the
> students 
> seemed to have learned more about atomic and nuclear physics
> in a few weeks than I had learned in an intensive college course.
>
> Herb  Gottlieb from New York City
> (Where some of our students learn best from our worst teachers)   

I enyoy the game of putting complex ideas into short one-liners which have
several levels of interpretation, and perhaps even a contradiction or two
thrown in. In this case, your experience, and mine, can be summed up:

	Learning is more important than teaching.

You can quote me.

	-- Donald

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