Word: isidor
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...that lecturing does not provide much, if any, opportunity for students to assimilate the information presented. And so students concentrate on being able to answer the type of questions they will be examined on. Yet education is more about asking questions than giving answers. Upon receiving the Nobel prize, Isidor Rabi attributed his becoming an inquiring scientist to his mother, who would always ask him after school: “Izzy, did you ask a good question today...