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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
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Edited after his death, this book brings together transcripts of lectures and interviews given by Feynman with a number of essays on subjects including religion and the teaching of science.
Most interesting to me were his recollections of how his father encouraged him to think in a scientific manner -- and showed him the pleasure of finding things out.
Every five years or so, I seem to reach a point in my career where I wonder whether I'm following the right path. Had I read this book during the last period of doubt, when I was wondering whether I could interest teenagers in physics, I might have taken the plunge and retrained as a teacher.
As it is, though, the book goes some way to helping me deal with another question that's been bothering me: how do you deal with the incessant "But why?" questioning of a small child trying to understand how the world works? Who knows where that might lead.
Let me know what pleasures you find in this book.
Most interesting to me were his recollections of how his father encouraged him to think in a scientific manner -- and showed him the pleasure of finding things out.
Every five years or so, I seem to reach a point in my career where I wonder whether I'm following the right path. Had I read this book during the last period of doubt, when I was wondering whether I could interest teenagers in physics, I might have taken the plunge and retrained as a teacher.
As it is, though, the book goes some way to helping me deal with another question that's been bothering me: how do you deal with the incessant "But why?" questioning of a small child trying to understand how the world works? Who knows where that might lead.
Let me know what pleasures you find in this book.
