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[Phys-L] Re: What students will do. (was: Physics Solutions Manual)



Jack's 4th point

[ 4. A purpose of reading is to learn how other people think, so tha=
t you
can copy their thinking patterns. ]
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reminds me of a related thought I often have. Whenever I consider o=
ne of the proposals to eliminate the lecture component of physics tea=
ching (the "Keller plan", for example), I wonder how I would have dev=
eloped the "style of thinking" of physicists if I had not spent so mu=
ch time watching them think "live" in the classroom. I suppose quite=
a bit of this can be gotten from reading, but I'm not sure published=
thinking gives quite the same "flavor" as live thinking. (Of course=
I've also attended some university lectures that didn't involve much=
demonstration of thinking and might just as well have been published=
.)
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Fred Lemmerhirt
Waubonsee Community College
Sugar Grove, Illinois
flemmerhirt@waubonsee.edu
http://chat.waubonsee.edu/~flemmerh/physics.html
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