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The One
26th October 2011, 19:33
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out was filmed in 1981 and will delight and inspire anyone who would like to share something of the joys of scientific discovery. Feynman is a master storyteller, and his tales – about childhood, Los Alamos, or how he won a Nobel Prize – are a vivid and entertaining insight into the mind of a great scientist at work and play.

In this candid interview Feynman touches on a wide array of topics from the beauty of nature to particle physics. He explains things that are hard to grasp in layman’s terms much like Carl Sagan did in the cosmos series. His explanation of the scientific method covers what we know, why we know it and most importantly, what we don’t know and the pleasure of figuring it out.

While the video quality is less than desirable the content of this program more than makes up for it. Professor Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Prize for Chemistry said “The 1981 Feynman Horizon is the best science program I have ever seen. This is not just my opinion – it is also the opinion of many of the best scientists that I know who have seen the program… It should be mandatory viewing for all students whether they be science or arts students.”

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58andfixed
26th October 2011, 20:00
A 'teacher' of a different kind.

One who cultivated the asking of questions, where the students made effort to learn, and not merely repeat back what was to be mimicked.

Yet another would be John Taylor Gatto.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ogCc8ObiwQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ogCc8ObiwQ

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PathWalker
26th October 2011, 20:11
As a child I admired Feinman, he was my life model.
I failed as physicist, I am great as an engineer.