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<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>In a foreword to Dr. Mendel Sachs\' book "Einstein vs. Bohr", Joseph\nAgassi wrote that the skills that made one a great student often didn\'t\nseem to translate into making a great research physicist. Assuming this\nto be true, what do working physicists and those in the physics\neducation field consider to be the skills a modern physicist should\nhave? Could one profit from the ideas in the writings of R.B.\nRoot-Bernstein (DISCOVERING, SPARKS OF GENIUS), Patrick Reany (The HOW\nof physics and mathematics) and Dr. D. Hestenes (Physics as Modeling)?\n\nMany years ago, in the American Journal of Physics I read\ntwo articles in the same issue in which one physicist complained that\nstudents were not trained in modern methods while another physicist\nthat was involved in reforming University Physics ironically pointed\nout that physics textbooks hadn\'t changed much over the course of a\ncentury. I still see the same kind of articles that I saw over 20 years\nago. Has there been any progress toward modernizing physics education?\nDoes one still need twenty years to get up to the frontier in physics\nresearch?\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\nThis post submitted through the LaTeX-enabled physicsforums.com\nTo view this post with LaTeX images:\nhttp://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=53775#post379554\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>In a foreword to Dr. Mendel Sachs' book "Einstein vs. Bohr", Joseph
Agassi wrote that the skills that made one a great student often didn't
seem to translate into making a great research physicist. Assuming this
to be true, what do working physicists and those in the physics
education field consider to be the skills a modern physicist should
have? Could one profit from the ideas in the writings of R.B.
Root-Bernstein (DISCOVERING, SPARKS OF GENIUS), Patrick Reany (The HOW
of physics and mathematics) and Dr. D. Hestenes (Physics as Modeling)?
Many years ago, in the American Journal of Physics I read
two articles in the same issue in which one physicist complained that
students were not trained in modern methods while another physicist
that was involved in reforming University Physics ironically pointed
out that physics textbooks hadn't changed much over the course of a
century. I still see the same kind of articles that I saw over 20 years
ago. Has there been any progress toward modernizing physics education?
Does one still need twenty years to get up to the frontier in physics
research?
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Agassi wrote that the skills that made one a great student often didn't
seem to translate into making a great research physicist. Assuming this
to be true, what do working physicists and those in the physics
education field consider to be the skills a modern physicist should
have? Could one profit from the ideas in the writings of R.B.
Root-Bernstein (DISCOVERING, SPARKS OF GENIUS), Patrick Reany (The HOW
of physics and mathematics) and Dr. D. Hestenes (Physics as Modeling)?
Many years ago, in the American Journal of Physics I read
two articles in the same issue in which one physicist complained that
students were not trained in modern methods while another physicist
that was involved in reforming University Physics ironically pointed
out that physics textbooks hadn't changed much over the course of a
century. I still see the same kind of articles that I saw over 20 years
ago. Has there been any progress toward modernizing physics education?
Does one still need twenty years to get up to the frontier in physics
research?
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