Re: [Phys-l] Lecture Isn't Effective: More Evidence #2

[chuck britton <cvbritton@mac.com>]

Selection - yes, that's an important part of determining who will 
climb to the top of the Ivory Tower.
But what about the seething masses left below??
SOME of whom really do want to learn.

	I think of my grandfather who had an eighth grade education 
(as was common back then) but worked with MIT's RADAR Labs to develop 
weather related applications.
	And my father-in-law with similar education who was a 
published poet as well as truck driver and unionizer.
.
At 9:18 AM -0700 7/21/11, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> On 2011, Jul 20, , at 18:52, CalvinKalman wrote:
>
> >  You can't argue on the basis of outliers such as Bill Gates. There 
> > were undoubtedly a few of Feynman's students at Caltech who were 
> > tremendously inspired by the lectures.
> >  Best wishes
> >                      Calvin
>
>
> Perhaps the lecture system is a good method of selection like the 
> method used at Annapolis.  The students that pass the test carry it 
> on.  So we, Gates, et alii think it works.  It does.
>
> bc  thinks this has been alluded on this list.
>
>
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