zapperz

Teaching, Teaching About, and Learning

rallain | April 1, 2010

ZapperZ (at Physics and Physicists) recently had a post about Chad (from Uncertain Principles). It was sort of a review of Chad's book How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. In this post, ZapperZ makes a very Feynman-like distinction between "teaching physics" and "teaching about physics". This is a really good point - that to learn physics you have to do physics. I completely agree. It is just like riding a bike - you have to ride a bike to learn to ride a bike. So here is the question. What do I do here on this blog? I don't know. Do I talk about physics? Yes? I do not teach physics -…