RE: Not about business models

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

> >         My point?  Learning is a student responsibility.  Or, to quote
> > Feynman, "What I cannot create I do not understand."  The student's
> > responsibility is to learn to create, and there is very little that the
> > teacher can do to facilitate that learning.
> >                                         Jack

Does this mean that the preparation of the teacher, the quality of the 
teacher and the environement of the classroom mean very little?

I do heartily agree that the student must "create."  I am not sure that the
teacher necessarily has little impact.  It is possible, especially for the 
better students, to have have motivation and abilities required to learn 
independent of the quality of the teacher. Physics is the home of numerous 
outstanding students. I think few students are very outstanding as a whole. 

Guess this may be another "zero approximation".

Tim