by dunningrb » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:04 pm
Thanks everyone for the kind words. I'm looking forward to all the conversations.
Joshua: I ride a Trek 5200, your standard race-ready road bike, although I don't compete. (Not fast enough.) I think I'm called a "recreational cyclist." I bike between 100 and 160 miles per week, and ride centuries when I find the time. I'm training for two late-season centuries now, in fact.
I've read most of Feynman's lecture materials. There's an old joke about them: they're like Chinese food---they're great, but an hour later you're hungry again. (I hope that wasn't offensive.) Feynman was a genius of the first rank. But, pedagogically, I'd say his lectures are fairly close to useless. I don't think he understood that the key to successful teaching is to focus on what the students are doing, not what the professor is doing.
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Rodney Dunning
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