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On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:52:49 -0600 Jim Green <JMGreen@SISNA.COM> writes:
Herb, who was it who said something like "If I could remember the
names of all the various particles, I would have been a botanist."
I think that it was the same fellow who used to play the bongo drums for
relaxation; Richard Feynman. He had the kind of humor that would be in
keeping with such a statement.
Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(where Richard Feynman first learned his science in our public schools)
On the other hand .......personal
I have no statistics to prove my contention but it has been my
experience that many of my former students, on the school honorrolls
with exceptionally high grades in High School Biology, have had agreat
deal of trouble achieving equally high grades in our high schoolphysics
courses. I assumed that courses such as the high school Biologyrequire
a great deal of memorization of seemingly unrelated topics togetherwith
test and examinations that mostly test the ability of recall.experiences.... but
Perhaps I am the only one on this list-serv with such
I wonder if anyone else here has had similar experiences.
Jim Green
mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen