v.cx/2010/04/feyn...
v.cx/2010/04/feyn...
"It was pitiful! All the work they did, intelligent people, but they got themselves into this funny state of mind, this strange kind of self-propagating ‘education’ which is meaningless, utterly meaningless!"
"It was pitiful! All the work they did, intelligent people, but they got themselves into this funny state of mind, this strange kind of self-propagating ‘education’ which is meaningless, utterly meaningless!"
"A student explained it to me: ‘If I ask you a question during the lecture, afterwards everybody will be telling me, What are you wasting our time for in the class? We’re trying to learn something. And you’re stopping him by asking a question.’"
"A student explained it to me: ‘If I ask you a question during the lecture, afterwards everybody will be telling me, What are you wasting our time for in the class? We’re trying to learn something. And you’re stopping him by asking a question.’"
"They could pass the examinations, and ‘learn’ all this stuff, and not know anything at all, except what they had memorized."
"They could pass the examinations, and ‘learn’ all this stuff, and not know anything at all, except what they had memorized."
"The students had memorized everything, but they didn’t know what anything meant. Everything was entirely memorized, yet nothing had been translated into meaningful words."
"The students had memorized everything, but they didn’t know what anything meant. Everything was entirely memorized, yet nothing had been translated into meaningful words."