10-year old

[Laurent Hodges <lhodges@IASTATE.EDU>]

> For reasons only the pixies know a friend of mine wants to teach physics to
> a 10 yr old grandson this summer -- Don't laugh; I think that he is
> serious.  Of course he never had a physics class himself -- so he has no
> idea what to teach.  I think that this is an experiment for him to see if
> this can be done -- He is a graduate of Stanford's Ed School.
>
> Can someone please propose a sketch/outline of a syllabus?  Suggest a
> text?  If not for the student, at least for him.

Wait a minute!  Didn't he learn in Ed School how to do this?  If not, what
did he learn there?

I suspect most of us have taught courses we never took ourselves.

Laurent Hodges