Feynman and Reading

Richard Feynman describes how he and his father used to read together. This 'translation' while reading is very much like one of the strategies we use in the classroom.

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Education

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• PYP
• reading strategies
• richard feynman

[ryanrenesis]

I'm gonna start reading encyclopedias with my son

[trevorbjarne]

Wonderful.

[aseglkj]

@ryanrenesis I'm gonna start vandalizing wikipedia articles with my son

[jarirusi]

@jarirusi What I meant was that if I see and hear it in english that helps to learn more about what he is saying.

[jarirusi]

@skating1611 I can understand most of it but subtitles are supportive thing because I'm not english speaking person and some scientific terms might be a bit difficult to understand.

[skating1611]

@jarirusi You can't understand him?

[jarirusi]

It would be great to insert english subtitles to all Feynman's speeches.

[ttwilkable]

some great inforamtion here thanks

[BrutalValor]

@jumb0mumb0

You really believe a test that leans either with linguistic or mathematical models, topology, etc can test the integrity of ones intellect? Many great psychologists have considered IQ tests to be absolute nonsense. Boris Sidis for one, believed they were misleading and absurd. Lewis Termans Termites were all blown out of the water when two men of "Average" IQ won the Nobel Prize.

[Lleanlleawrg]

@jumb0mumb0 I'm not sure I can agree that "we know that". You might know that. I don't know if that's neccesarily the case. And nor do I know what his intentions were in posting a comment 9 months ago. It is as you say likely that he meant what you think he meant, but he might as well just have meant that he wants to do something nice for his son and spend time with him reading encyclopedias with him for example. It's less likely, but still a possibility.

[jumb0mumb0]

@Lleanlleawrg

But the whole point in making that comment was to hope his son becomes more like Richard Feynman, so the aim was solely for intelligence, and we know that is not possible.

[Lleanlleawrg]

@jumb0mumb0 Assuming his child is not an inanimate object entirely devoid of intelligence, the kid would benefit from knowledge. It might not make the kid smarter, but it would make him more knowledgeable, which counts for something.