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The grandfather of my best friend from high school had the privilege of having Feynman as one of his seminar instructors whilst at Cornell. In fact, he remember
by cushychicken 11y ago
The grandfather of my best friend from high school had the privilege of having Feynman as one of his seminar instructors whilst at Cornell. In fact, he remembered the famous lecture described in "Surely You're Joking" where Feynman showed up to teach after getting a black eye in a bar fight the preceding weekend.
According to his account, Feynman walked into the lecture hall, turned to face the crowd (at which point, his black eye was noticeable), and asked "So... any questions?"
- gregpilling 11y agowere there any questions?
- cushychicken 11y agoTo the best of my recollection: no, there weren't. :)
- tajen 11y agoIn the very first chemistry class of a very reputated college in France, where every student discovered the new, extremely fast pace of the teaching, with an authoritarian teacher, on a lesson I already knew from high school, I, alone in the lecture, raised my hand to answer a question. And just made a very appropriate, contextual pun on paar with the answer. Teacher smiled. Asked someone else. That gave me quite a reputation for the next 5 years. The guy who makes a pun to a stern teacher. I love lecture hall situations, where you mix respect, intrigue, the stress of succeeding, and you get to meet the real humans.
- cushychicken 11y agoI miss lectures as well. A great lecture is my favorite way to learn - it's way more informative than a great textbook. I had a great teacher for my first circuits class in college. I wish I'd made the time to take some of his upper level classes in advanced analog design; he was able to make the material really engaging in the first class since microwave design was his specialty.