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Home » People » Education and outreach » Illuminating physics for students

Illuminating physics for students

02 Sep 2009

David Griffiths says that the role of a physics teacher should be to illuminate the subject's intrinsic interest, beauty and power – and warns that attempts to make it more marketable using gimmicks, false advertising or dilution are bound to be counterproductive

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My parents were professors (history and zoology), and they firmly believed that the purpose of educa

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David Griffiths recently retired after teaching physics for 30 years at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and is the author of textbooks on electrodynamics, quantum mechanics and elementary particles
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