Word: mathes
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...people behind them--have become more purposeful. In Sri Lanka, most volunteers are English teachers, but their programs are targeted at native educators rather than large groups of villagers; thus the agency produces trained local teachers to serve local needs. In Fiji, the corps provides tutoring in math, physics and accounting. In Nepal, the agency is looking for an array of new specialists, including urban planners, editors of technical journals and computer experts. But the volunteers there still tough out hardships: they usually live in small quarters with outdoor latrines and no running water or electricity. Says Lane Smith, director...
This semester MacKay of Brookline will take English, math, social studies, Physics I, and Science A-26, "Waves, Particles, and Structure of Matter...
Fair enough; he did bring Cambridge's medieval curriculum into the 19th century to suit his taste for math and the sciences. Nor was that all. Albert initiated the Crystal Palace exhibition of modern industry, as of 1851. He fought to abolish dueling. He promoted the Christmas tree. He composed music for the Duke of Wellington's funeral. He managed a lot of little things well. Yet even this doting biographer concedes that he was "excessively conscientious on quite minor matters." Albert died at 42, almost as much from overwork as from influenza...
...Feynman appears to have been unusually successful in selling his son on the joys of acquiring and applying knowledge. At about age twelve, Richard was the youngest radio repairman in Far Rockaway, an oceanside community on New York's Long Island. The gifted problem solver breezed through high school math and went on to stir up M.I.T. and Princeton, where the inverse proportion between his mental capacities and his social skills soon became obvious. The book's title is taken from the dean's wife's remark after she asked the young graduate student if he wanted cream or lemon...
...discovered that nearly all his students could parrot their lessons but could not explain what they meant. The rote method was obviously an unscientific way of teaching science. Years later, as a member of a California state board of education curriculum committee, Feynman was appalled by the quality of math textbooks he was asked to review. His expert opinion: "Everything was written by somebody who didn't know what the hell he was talking about...