Saturday, March 07, 2009

Pepean Academia

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3 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Read the whole thing -- there's more to it. Eg:

professors' political identity may be affected in part by a "backlash effect," in which academics are so frustrated by the "conservative criticism of the liberal professoriate that they cling to their identities as leftists even more fervently than they would otherwise."

3/07/2009 11:38 PM
Mr roT said...

You don't say!

3/08/2009 4:59 AM
Tecumseh said...

Counterpoint. The inspiration that drove Feynman to calculus as a child: “what one fool can do, another can;” to which he added, “what one can understand, another can.” This conviction that everything physicists know about nature could be reduced to simple terms that even a bus driver can understand is what make Feynman a good teacher.

3/08/2009 11:07 AM

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