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Something that's been percolating finally has come thru.
OTOH, I think this has already been mentioned and I forgot.
The purpose of PER is not to create productive physicists. I suspect
the vast majority of them have and will become by any method of
"teaching". The usefulness of PER is to replace Aristotelian
thought w/ more correct thought and thinking methods in those who
thru fortune have not been so blessed already.
bc blessed.
On 2008, May 12, , at 06:58, Jack Uretsky wrote:
Most of the post-docs who are accepted at Argonne (for three year
stints)
camef foreign schools and have established reputations. As far as
I can
tell, they are products of traditional education.
Where is the evidence of PER success in creating productive
physicists and
engineers?
Regards,
Jack
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