Watering Down LO5262

GSCHERL (GSCHERL@fed.ism.ca)
Wed, 31 Jan 96 16:41:12 EST

Replying to LO5174 -- was: Change from the Bottom Up

In following up on John Zavacki's suggestion for this thread, he wrote:
> Russell's understanding of the math allowed him to speak sotto voce
> about an extremely complex theory and make it available to the
> non-physicist.

>In the same way, I teach statistics to people with no college and very
> little formal training in math. They need to understand the concepts,
> not the derivations of the formulae or their relationships to
> insolubilia. Is this watered down?

I think it takes two ingredients to allow a teacher to share with others
about complex concepts:
1) an indepth understanding of the topic. Einstein definitely
understood Relativity so could write it simply.
2) An ability to communicate with all the words of the language.
If you only know 850 words, you won't be able to communicate very
efficiently. Words evokes images which leads to understanding. 

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     Gary Scherling
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