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On Wed, 2 May 2001, Laurent Hodges wrote:jcooper@BUCKNELL.EDU 05/02/01 04:09PM >>>
George Carrier (head of the Challenger Explosion committee that
Feynman served on) at Harvard taught the applied math course for
graduate students for many years. He tried giving beautiful, perfect,
unflawed lectures some years, and flawed lectures with mistakes ("Oh,
this isn't right, it should be xxx, but I don't know where I went
wrong.") other years. He was convinced that students performed better
in the second type of lecture and attributed it to the fact that they
went home and straightened everything out after the flawed lecture,
and learned in the process. Well, I know I did that!