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And here's is one of the greatest teachers that humanity has ever seen admitting that he doesn't know the best methodology to teach....Can a person be more authentic and humble?
The trully brilliant are almost always humble.
"All that I know, is that I don't know"
@Wayne Wallace oh boy you have lots of going out and being kind to people to do my friend. They enjoyed this little video of Feynman, and so did I, guess I'm ordinary too. But is it a bad thing to think that he's smart and humble? He is. Does it mean he's perfect, of course not. Neither are you my friend, and you're not superior to "ordinary" people. Good job on the hard work you must have put on your intelligence, but that's not all that is to existing. You can be nice to other "less intelligent" or "ordinary" folks, I'm sure most of them will be kind to you too.
Wayne Wallace what kind of bad things did he do?
@Wayne Wallace he loved and married his high school girlfriend despite the fact that she had TB and will only lhave few years. He remained her side till her death after that he didn't have any successful relationship like many other great people Einstein , Hawking ..his marriage was failure that doesn't mean he was bad or something ... Though he was womaniser because he was smart , handsome and charismatic man and ladies loved him ... What's wrong with that .. it was his personal life ... None of these facts oppose the fact he was one of the greatest physicist and teacher of all time and see and read interview of his friends , relatives and colleagues ( except those whose wife he slept with ) he was humble ..
So the best way to teach is to adapt according to your students
Which is impossible when you have 100 of them.
I think you should listen to the white haired bloke in the video. He seems sorta smart.
It's kind of impossible in a country where education is a business and they want to make as much money as they can.
Each child has different types of learning methods at different speeds.
All we have to do is implement a system where an individual is educated, not with a whole herd of sheep, but giving individual attention and teach them at their own comfortable pace.
And "tests" should not be a written one.
I believe an individual's understanding should be evaluated based on how well they are able to teach it to others. As Feynman said "What I cannot create, I do not understand".
But how can we do this?
Is there enough time and manpower?
Will it work?
YES
Thats tough.theres 50 personalities or more
Interviewer: Do you know how to teach?
Feynman: Well yes, but actually no
Richard Feynman was absolutely spot on. And he ought to know since he may have been the greatest teacher of science of all time. Feynman claims he did not know how to teach. but if you watch the videos of his lectures, you will see that he is preoccupied with the question: How do we know? And, How do we find out? To me that was his secret. How to empower the student to learn by his/her own efforts.
Teaching was the hardest work I have ever tried to do. And I had delivered morning newspapers in the dead of a Canadian winter. I had worked on a road gang at age 15, mixing concrete by shoveling sand and gravel into one of those rotary machines. The difference is that teaching is fun, even though you wonder at the end of the day if you will recover enough to teach again the next day.
I taught high school science and mathematics full-time for five years and then part-time for another 5+ years to adults, with short stints in primary schools for slow-learners. English for New Canadians. Arc-welding to shipyard workers. Auto-mechanics to teenagers. The last courses I delivered were from 1966-1969, a series of ten lectures on computers applications in local government to about 1,000 attendees. And later in the 1960s, a graduate course in quantitative methods for the master of science degree. And a few other lectures in colleges on various aspect of quantitative methods. Not as much work or as much fun as school teaching.
But still, you have to find ways to get into the heads of your students. How do you turn on the lamp so the student can see how something works? The biggest flaw in science teaching may be over-reliance on theory (deduction) and under-emphasis on experiment (induction). Deduction too often trumps induction in the classroom. It is easy to teach a subject the same way preachers teach religion, as a set of dogmas. That is where Feynman departed from those who do not know how to teach. Why he asked, How do we know? And, How do we find out? As he demonstrates in his video about how to learn the rules of chess by watching how the game is played.
In all those years, the best lesson I delivered was a tenth-grade public high school class in atmospheric physics, demonstrating air pressure. I gave this lesson to children age 13-14, mostly girls. The date was around 1962. I was the most junior teacher, which is why I got to teach girls and not boys. (O tempora, o mores! Oh the times! Oh the customs!)
Mercury Barometer experiment, inspired by a 1957 book by James Conant, a former president of Harvard University.
I filled a tube of mercury just over one meter long (40+ inches long) and inverted it in a beaker of mercury. The height of the mercury in the inverted tube was a little less than one meter (38 inches). That left a gap in the top of the tube with no mercury. I then reviewed the research done on the following question: What holds the mercury up the tube? Can't remember the names of the philosophers of the 16th/17th century who argued this point. But one theory, still held by people who know no physical science, is that the semi-vacuum at the top of the tube creates a "spring of air" that pulls the mercury up the tube. (Semi-vacuum because some liquid mercury becomes mercury vapour at the top of the barometer tube, a little like in a mercury-vapour street-lamp.)
*Even in those unenlightened days, we did not allow children to play with mercury. But it sometimes happened.*
I wrote the list of theories on the blackboard and asked, What holds the mercury up the tube? Got mostly blank looks. But one student said it was the pressure of air in the room pressing down on the mercury in the beaker. So I asked if anyone could think of a way to test this theory. And someone said, Take away the air in the room. As I recall, this got a good laugh.
Well I then pointed to the box on the table and said it was an air pump. And reached under my lab bench and retrieved a huge bell jar. And said, Let us place the beaker and tube on the air pump and then cover the the beaker and tube with the bell jar and turn on the pump. Which I did. The mercury fell down the tube into the beaker.
We then discussed the result of the experiment. Then I asked, Can anyone could think of a further test?
On student said, if you let the air back into the bell jar, then if the theory is correct, the mercury should go back up the tube. Which I did. And the mercury rose back to its about one meter high (38 inches).
Because this was a course in general science, a section about the global water cycle, I then explained about barometers, the mercury sort and modern kinds that did not use mercury, and how air pressure varied as people ascend mountains. This was less than ten years after Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Mount Everest, which everyone had at least heard about, even children. So this gave these children a topic for dinner conversation. About why people need to carry oxygen up Mount Everest.
I wonder if any girl had become a physical scientist or engineer? Well I tried. I know that one of my students from a mining town in northern Canada became a famous primatologist. But I don't know if I had any influence in her choice of career.
At that time, I did not have a degree in physical science (not until I reached age 75.) But as you can see, if you wish to teach, you can never stop trying to learn about what you are teaching and how to do it. And it's a 60-hour plus per week job to do it well. And you will never be able to say you are good at it.
The toughest jobs I ever had were teaching jobs. And the most satisfying. But I was not earning enough to become independent even at age 32, and had no prospect of ever marrying or owning a home. I left teaching, but not until I had returned to university and got further credentials sufficient to work as an independent professional. What a pity!
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I enjoyed hearing about your Thank you for sharing
Thank you for sharing :)
Great post.
Sounds like he agrees with Bruce Lee, "using no way, as way".
Great quote by Lee --
“Man, he is constantly growing, and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that is when he Stops growing.” - Bruce Lee
Precisely the heart of it. Perhaps if teachers AND students adapt this philosophy, it will optimize the benefits and understanding of the source material. Natural sciences are wholly objective. Let go of your perspective. Witness the kaleidoscope of ways to understanding something.
Be water, my friend.
Teaching - is very difficult.
You must capture the person's interest and motivation. With out that - you have nothing,
His story of his own son - is how real learning and education can develop.
Only a good teacher though
How do you manage to capture the person's interest and motivation in one major,let's say math in a class of 25 persons? And you may have another classes, let's say 5 classes. Total 125 persons. But you also have fixed and limited time, let's say 4 hours a week?
He describe the difference of her son and daughter which is two persons. What if you get 125 persons?
Sorry for my english. Im not native speaker.
And, can interest and motivation change? Or it can not?
@@idamncit1154 you're saying this, but Feymann is remembered as a fenomenal teacher. Maybe his chaotic approach did work with big classes. It didn't appeal to every single person, of course; but this isn't the point, right?
How passionate a teacher is about a subject can REALLY help motivate.
Can't thank him enough for teaching me to see beauty in all the phenomena of Nature, everything that my eyes, ears, mind could possibly land on !!! Possibly the greatest teacher of all time.
Hi I am Gourang too
Richard Feynman was a youtuber too...
😂😂😂
Imagine PewDiePie and Feynman making a collab video 😂😂😂
Feynman does meme review
If he hadn't died in the 1980s maybe. He'd be 102 years old now if he was still alive.
A posthumous TH-camr lmao
Feynman’s ability to teach will always be best illustrated for me by that few minutes on the panel investigating the Challenger disaster, when he took the seal material for the solid propellant booster and put it in the glass of cold water. Simple, and brilliant.
The best teacher in the history says I don't know how to teach...🙏🙏🙏
Do we know his son today? Imagine "My dad, historically famous physicist and educator, used to tell me bed time stories about tiny people in the carpet". Seems like a pretty cool way to remember dad.
His daughter Michelle Feynman gave a TED Talk at CalTech. She briefly points to her brother in the audience. th-cam.com/video/dQai9QikTBI/w-d-xo.html
His basic idea is-
"Everyone is different. Different ways of teaching work on different students."
In education, this is referred to as differentiation.
The best way to learn is to explore and experiment as a child does.
The best way to teach is to encourage this process. A never ending journey of discovery, this is what Feynman is talking about here.
"I really don't know"...I love this man so much!
he was the finest teacher we have ever seen... my favorite..
we learn best when we are having fun.. the good doctor Feynman understood that... absolutely
the most important lessons in life are not going on when we must sit up and pay attention.. it's out on the playground that we learn how to survive... and from our parents...
thanks Feynman family.. mil gracias... a thousand thanks 🙏
Richard Feynman be like :
I don't know the answer, but I sorta know the answer.
*Respect*
To be fair, that's about as much as anyone can say about anything, if they are being completely honest.
And that is what mathematics exactly is. Chaotic. At first even one plus one makes no sense. Once understood, it makes so much sense it is beautiful to the point of addiction. The deeper you go, the less becomes the understanding making everything chaotic again. Once deeper levels are understood, it makes everyone around you that don't, be chaotic. And that is the next level of mathematics often neglected, avoided, for whatever reasons. Teaching.
Happy Birthday Richard Feynman... your a great scientist!
His way of seeing and relating the world is marvelous. The joyfulness in his storytelling is pure delight!
I am a high school teacher, and the central question of my existence is how to hook the interest of students who have no interests. "What are you interested in?" "Nothing." "What are your hobbies?" "I have no hobbies." "What's your favorite movie?" "I don't have one." "What's your favorite tv show?" "People don't watch tv anymore." "Do you play sports?" "No." "Do you like any sports?" "No." "What do you do on the weekend?" "Nothing." "What's your favorite book?" "I don't have one." And these are the students who give you any kind of answer at all. Sometimes all you get are blank stares and a refusal to even write an answer. At least 20 years ago when I'd give a questionnaire on the first day of school, kids would actually write things that were mostly true--things they were actually somewhat interested in. Today they might write their favorite song or something, but the rest are "IDK", blank, or "I don't have one."
@@redryder3721 I think you are severely out of touch with the reality of the situation today.
@redryder3721 Yes, you are severely out of touch. Consider for a moment that maybe you don't understand the big picture. That someone with 20 years teaching experience may have some insight that you don't have. And that my 20 years does indeed trump your "time and effort" into writing a handful of paragraphs in a youtube comment. (And now you've deleted your comments and run away. Typical.) If you sincerely want to learn something about the issue I'm concerned about, I'm here.
What an extraordinary man Richard Feynman was.
I regret never having had a chance to meet this great man.
I went to UCLA as an undergrad, and a friend and I intended to make a trip to Caltech to try to see him lecture "one day soon." Unfortunately, he died that year, and we regretted not making the effort when we (might have) had the chance. We didn't know, but he was probably in poor health already, and probably we didn't have a chance anyway, but one still regrets not trying.
Yes ! FEYNMAN IS RIGHT FOR TEACHERS WHO WANT TO TELL THE CONCEPTS TO STUDENTS BASED ON THEIR STRATEGY. because telling theory is boring . But telling (problems & experiment's) is much more FASCINATING. 🤘🤘 That's why he is always a LEGENDARY physicist of 20th century 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The only thing harder to find than a good teacher is a good student.
Good students become easier to find, when the teachers are good
The true moral of the story is that you teach by learning about the student’s preferences and be flexible to their needs.
That’s why teaching is so taxing as there are all different kinds of minds and personalities and how to deal with them all
Thank you for sharing! Feynman is a great inspiration of mine. =)
One of the Greatest minds that the world human race ever born..
Right?!?!?🙏🤗👦👧 the learning patterns are different. And appreciated so intelligently.
Teaching is a person-to-person activity! If one has an active and engaging personality, and really loves people, that person will be an effective teacher! I have always said that "teachers are born, and not made," despite all the courses and advice regarding how to be an effective teacher!
We don't have teachers anymore, only dictators that punish anyone who applies the scientific method to the material being pushed.
@@HDGameWizard r/iam14andthisisdeep
@@bobjones2959 his message wasn't in any way deep or relevant to the Reddit site. Don't get what you're trying to push.
r/iAmVerySmart
@@noxaeterna8761 You don't know what r/iam14andthisisdeep or r/iAmVerySmart are for. And the pretentious way you said that is perfect for r/iAmVerySmart. Ironic.
@@bobjones2959 ram 14 is for kids thinking they are wise and know what the fucks going on.
R very smart is simply for shit going over people's heads or thinking that they are superior to others by placing all this additional information in a oblivious way to how they come off, or rude way.
Ehm... How exactly is what I said am very smart? #irrelevant
I am sister displeased. Pretentious wheregoo.gl/search/Definition+of+pretentious
pretentious, adjective, prəˈten(t)SHəs, attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed
nothing in my message was pretentious. And anyway your message was pointless. Which is exactly why I responded. annoying little shits with their iAmVerY sMaRt bs everywhere. Go somewhere don't kid yourself
Everyone learns differently, some learn by reading, some learn by doing, some learn by watching or listening,
there is no best way to teach, it depends on the person who is trying to learn.
Best teacher in this civilizáció!
What a wonderful person, this guy seems
He is one of the greatest physicist of 20th century
🤧I remember my late father. The way he talks, similar to my father.
Great advice, so ahead of his time.
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” -Professor Richard Feynman😉
A genius who loved physics and loved explaining. RESPECT!
You can only teach someone who's willing to learn.
Everybody can teach himself with books.
With a book you can go your own speed of learning something.
I guess it is the better way too do it because nowadays a lot of lectures are only Power Point Presentations.
And you cannot teach natural science with Power Point Presentations, ok you can do it but not good i guess.
@@mb_1005 What I used to think! teach my children to read. Now we live in the age of the internet; yet what they learn is a fake life and no mater how hard I try they live in their own world. The most important thing I have done my best to instil in them is to question everything, especially their educators the media and social media.
@@favesongslist - “They live in their own world”.
I’m just starting to see that with my sproglets. It’s like they’re no longer in the room.
It’s so hard nowadays to grab their attention when they have so many cyber distractions.
Am thinking of introducing computer-free weekends. Might be the only way to regain some contact.
i'm in love with him, such a cute human.
What a Beautiful mind
Teaching is more like improvising, adapting to what you have in front of you. One of the underlying constraint is that you just can't leave any one out.
The original Rick
Amen
OR!
except feynman was actually a good person... or real
Rick wishes he can be fynnman
There's no perfect teacher. Only you know how teach yourself.
I love this guy. Everything that's ever came out of his mouth
Oh how it would have been nice to be a Mini Feynman growing up :)
All of the teachers I enjoyed the most were the ones who always confused me. They have strengthened my cognitive-functioning.
Complex concepts have many faces and it's important to focus one step at a time on every one of them, including those which better connect with our everyday experience and language.
amazing person Sir Richard Feynman
When was the last time you saw anyone smile involuntarily when talking about their work?!?
That’s one of the things that made him such a great scientist, he really enjoyed his job and took a great delight in communicating it.
The short version that he’s explaining is “Teachers Teaching All Ways Always” The best teachers know to supply students with several different avenues that lead you to the desired end result. He is 100% correct that what works for one student (or class of students) will be able to be replicated with 100% accuracy. It’s a system where you have to change your method multiple times in a single lesson, and then it’s a completely different game with the next group of students.
Now imagine that, then also having to write bathroom passes, tell students to put phones away constantly, and handling behavior issues and apathy towards education. Then you’ll understand the real world of education below the college level.
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Finally I find out what GOAT means!!
@@rohlay00 😂
Greatness lies in him!
God, what an AMAZING teacher!
I always thought i would end up with a physics teacher or die alone.
Give people something to rise to---a method, new levels of a skill---in their own way.
What a personality. Such insight.
I didnt learn english in school. I wasnt interested in the stuff at all. Like exercises where one had to clean the dishes and put them somewhere etc. Later on, I got into video games and played an online game on an international Server. I was really intereseted in the things that were going on there, but they were in english. So quess what, Im typing this comment now. :D
The best teacher in the world: "I don't know the best way to teach"
If I could ever become someone else...
*I do not know how to hook them* - he said as he hooked them. Your personality and charisma was the hook Sir. Your modesty hid them from you as a practical joke.
Interviewer: so how are you such a good teacher
Feynman: lol fuck if I know
Teaching is the hardest thing you can do. Everything you know was all because of you. People teach themselves. Teachers are just the guidelines.
Real life Ms. Frizzle.
And this is why I've always had issues with the concept of competitive education in the private industry. How do you gauge who does it best when there really are no set rules...and where there are, those rules will stifle the hell out of some of minds while giving absolute flourish to others.
Private industry is not limited to producing one objective best product. Rather, each substantial variation of a product may be considered a separate product. As long as a stable amount of people find value in the product and are willing to trade for it, there is incentive for that product to be continually produced.
Love this man.
He was a modern Natural Historian. Natural History is about the entire world and everything in it and how they all interact. And thats what he did.
I LOVE this man!!!
Feynman was an incredible man
he seems very direct and honest. i bet he was a swell guy!
Legend of science
As I have got older, I find myself agreeing more and more with RF.
Age 20 - I agree with THAT bit , but now you are just boring - What's on TV?
Age 30 - Yeah - that happened to me once, so what? weirdo !
Age 40 - I haven't got time to listen to this Crap!
Age 50 - Maybe I should have Listen to this Guy a bit more , he seems to know everything !
I agree absolutely!
GREAT WORK
hello from Chile fellow persons
Everyone is different, so teaching for everyone is different.
Knowing your subject well and having great enthusiam for the material is the key to being effective. Be excited to teach and it will rub off on your students. That's my two cents...but what the hell do I know?
You know nothing.
A Great father
maybe the world needs all kind of people.
Feynman: I don't know what is the best way to teach, or how to keep everyone interested and engaged
The Algorithm: ...this response is unacceptable, must keep searching
A man of the world.
He was a fineman
Imagine what this guy would do to these metaphyscial philosophy conmen we have now..
What is metaphysical philosophy
I am here. Where is Einstein said Feynman.
The best made in usa
This is the best video I’ve ever seen on youtube.
Search 'Feynman'. You'll find a number of his videos, teaching basic physics, explaining his Nobel prize winning 'Feynman Diagrams', playing Bongo drums, his experiences on the 'Manhattan Project', etc. Regarding the last one, you should watch 'Los Alamos from the Bottom' th-cam.com/video/uY-u1qyRM5w/w-d-xo.html . Feynman was one of the top scientists, yet he presents himself from the perspective of a 'Newbie' - very entertaining!
Then you must see the "Pale blue dot".
A short video by Carl Sagan.
Better than this.
Richard Feynman 😍
I really want to find out something bad about Feynman to balance how good he is but the worst things are that he messed with people but even that can be just because he was curious
Amazing
Appeal to their self interest, egoism... It's like DeepQ-Learning where you create a reward system(fun facts, small games) that lures people in the direction of possibly greater reward(knowledge in this case). They might gain enough momentum to drag others along.
The great teachers do not teach to garner good student evaluations. They strive to improve their teaching methods to educate the future generations considering that as the solemn duty in their profession.
Let me give the real answer: Real education cannot be mass-disseminated. With mass-education you will only produce impersonal clever efficient machines for the state. Feynman was an exception to the rule, he was an exceptionally good teacher given the circumstances, but he couldn't quite catch the deep issue. In real education, teacher and student grows together, learns together, there cannot be more than 12 students per teacher.
How do you teach best ways?
Step one. Catch students on different hooks.
"then he went into a Moist Cave, where the wind kept coming in and out".
You could either entertain a child with that story, or destroy his childhood.
Please enable us to make subtitles and translate the genious of Feynman.
The Atacama people of Peru are small people.
Its because the whole universe is alive and everything you see is a living memory.
Where can I find all of these clips
This piece is proof of Dunning-Kruger by contradiction
Enthalpy and energy
Imagine if every scientists were like him