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I am sorry but you cannot teach everything to a toddler. It needs years of learning to understand something. Feynman knew this, he knew science was hard, he wou

• eesmith 9y ago
  And he didn't. The closest I know is the account described at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Feynman https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Feynman : > Feynman was a truly great teacher. He prided himself on being able to devise ways to explain even the most profound ideas to beginning students. Once, I said to him, "Dick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics." Sizing up his audience perfectly, Feynman said, "I'll prepare a freshman lecture on it." But he came back a few days later to say, "I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we don't really understand it." "Beginning students" here means beginning college students. Not toddler.