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This is just beautiful: "First of all, it helps to be ignorant. The time when I did my best work was when I was most ignorant. Knowing too much is a great hand
by guiambros 10y ago
This is just beautiful:
"First of all, it helps to be ignorant. The time when I did my best work was when I was most ignorant. Knowing too much is a great handicap. Especially if you’ve been teaching for some years, things get so fixed in your mind and it’s impossible to think outside the box."
Great article, thanks for posting.
- mikhailfranco 10y agoYes, it is so important to separate research and teaching, they are completely and utterly different in approach, skills, personality and philosophy. A teacher should be primarily reading research in teaching, with research in the domain as a secondary hobby. Spending an hour filling 15 rolling blackboards with chalk squiggles has long outlived its usefulness and effectiveness. As a rare example of an inspired researcher and pragmatic theorist of teaching for physics, I would name David Hestenes.