Richard P. Feynman Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, p.5, Basic Books

• What did you ASK at school today?

  Richard P. Feynman

  Educational, Teaching, School

• The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off-chance that it is in another direction - a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory - who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unusual point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Lying, Teaching, Views

  "The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics". Richard P. Feynman's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1965.

• I don't believe I can really do without teaching.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Believe, Teaching, Don't Believe

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.293, Princeton University Press

• I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Believe, Teaching, Ideas

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.293, Princeton University Press

• I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Teaching, Students, Accepting

  Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.166, Random House

• My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Dance, Mother, Teaching

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