Re: [Phys-l] Motivating Students

[Joseph Bellina <jbellina@saintmarys.edu>]

In a democratic society you then put yourself at the mercy of those  
who know much less than you...I think that is a very uncomfortable  
position.


Joseph J. Bellina, Jr. Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556

On May 22, 2008, at 8:13 PM, LaMontagne, Bob wrote:

> Can the system handle more that 1%? Would people, and even other  
> faculty, still look at us in awe? Personally, I like the elitism.
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> Bob at PC
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> But the top 1% will survive and even prosper.  Today on the Engines of
> our Ingenuity (NPR), John Leonhardt told the story of Robert Millican
> who had dreadful courses in physics in both HS and college.  He ended
> up going into physics because the jobs came open, even though he
> preferred the humanities.  In the end he prospered and put some of the
> final bricks into the budding quantum theory.
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