tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post2827016010024750562..comments2024-03-11T13:47:03.621-05:00Comments on Physics and Physicists: A Change In How Physics Is TaughtZapperZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15861398273820851809noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post-25521393733812323152009-01-13T10:45:00.000-06:002009-01-13T10:45:00.000-06:00“The people who wanted to understand,” Professor M...<I>“The people who wanted to understand,” Professor Mazur said, “had the discipline, the urge, to sit down afterwards and say, ‘Let me figure this out.’ ” But for the majority, he said, a different approach is needed.</I><BR/><BR/>So it serves the majority, but what about the people who would actually have made most use of physics classes? For example, the UK is dumbing down physics as fast as it possibly can, in order to make it appeal to the -ology students and the high-school drop-outs-to-be, but at the same time making the subject material so frustratingly boring and pointless that those students who might have actually gone to study physics at University (etc...) are bored to tears and turned off the subject anyway...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com