Re: 10 yr old

[John Cooper <jcooper@BUCKNELL.EDU>]

> For reasons only the pixies know a friend of mine wants to teach physics to
> a 10 yr old grandson this summer -- Don't laugh; I think that he is
> serious.  Of course he never had a physics class himself -- so he has no
> idea what to teach.  I think that this is an experiment for him to see if
> this can be done -- He is a graduate of Stanford's Ed School.
>
> Can someone please propose a sketch/outline of a syllabus?  Suggest a
> text?  If not for the student, at least for him.
   About a year ago a nine-year-old contacted this list briefly with an
interest in knowing more.  Before our dialogue was over I sent her a copy
of Louis Epstein's "Thinking Physics is Gedanken Physics".
   That kid's natural curiosity has since taken her precocity elsewhere
but in years to come I suspect she will come back to that elegant bit of
physical pedagogy.
   Jim, you could do worse than look at it.

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