RE: A Root must Touch Soil to Grow

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I have just read your post and I am speechless. Really! I am so happy to see this. I can't really comment more, but feel free to imagine the nice smile on my face.

I am actually quite close to the topic as I myself try to do something good for Africa (through the African school for particle physics).

I just say WOW once again!



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If your smile is anything like the smiles on the faces in Liberia then I can imagine it quite well indeed!

That is great - thank you for the work. Physics was a tricky course to teach in my schools as foundational mathematics were severely lacking. I did find, however, that they understood things well if they could see them. One day I had students pair up and time each other pacing 50 meters, then calculate speed from that real data. It stuck!

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Those students are usually amazing in terms of good will (much stronger than most Western students).

The first time I lectured at the ASP school was a complicated experience for me. I was supposed to provide an introduction to quantum mechanics, special relativity, gauge theories and quantum field theory. On slide 1, I have a question about the Greek letters (one of the student didn't know what the letter 'mu' was). Then later on, another student started to ask a lot of very deep question on quantum disentanglement.

Such a gap in levels makes teaching really tough!

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That's a great observation. I had the same issue. For my case, I consciously decided to teach to the upper-middle level students to maximize the utility of the class. Hard to do a side-by-side test, but it felt right.

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I am sure those issues will be alleviated with time. It is just hard at the time of the "investment", i.e. now :)

Are you still there?

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That is true. All good things take time.

Are you still there?

Actually, we had to leave several months back. I wrote a post about it here.

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Oh I missed that post (I was quite away during the last 10 days). I will read it later today!

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