Re: Jackson on Jackson

[Tim Burgess <tburgess@jaguar1.usouthal.edu>]

On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Leigh Palmer wrote:
> How many Jascha Heifetz would we expect to produce if we lectured to
> violin students instead of giving them individual instruction? Maybe
> physics is more like violin playing than it is like history.
This statement very much strikes at my center of understanding. Physics
is learned (as opposed to absorbed) because a student decides to think
in terms of the guidelines and rules our discipline offers. We can provide
opportunities for such thinking, but the students themselves must think.


Tim



 
 
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