Re: Jackson on Jackson

[sample@lyon.edu (John D. Sample)]

At 5:58 PM on 11/13/96, <phys-l@mailer.uwf.edu> 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.
>
> Leigh

Cool.  I've used exactly the same analogy (well it was a piano) with my
students in an attempt to get them to quit trying to memorize notes and
spend more time trying to solve problems and prove things.

Chip