Defeat
I feel that this must be said.
My physics professor's toddler knows more about physics than I do.
She brought her husband and kid to class today--probably so her husband could attach a string attached to a bowling ball to the ceiling for the demonstration about how the ball will never swing as high as it did on the first swing. So they're just sort of hanging out in the class being observant and in the kid's case mysteriously well behaved.
Physics lecture at NMT involves clicker questions--we have these little "iclicker"s and she flashes up multiple choice questions to demonstrate concepts and we vote. Then she explains why one choice is right and why the rest are wrong. Very helpful. During one such explanation, she asks something like "so if the graph of the force has a negative slope, the energy is pointing in which direction?" class mumbles in self-conscious confusion, and small child shouts "To the right!" we all laugh. THE KID WAS RIGHT. The kid continues to be right for the rest of the directional values of the graph.
This kid is like, 3 or 4 and pawned all of us at physics.
My conclusion from this: This kids parents know how to raise a kid. Math, science, probably reading, and other smart stuff. All that 10-piece puzzle, put the block in the right hole stuff can be done later when they're 20 and already running NASA.
My physics professor's toddler knows more about physics than I do.
She brought her husband and kid to class today--probably so her husband could attach a string attached to a bowling ball to the ceiling for the demonstration about how the ball will never swing as high as it did on the first swing. So they're just sort of hanging out in the class being observant and in the kid's case mysteriously well behaved.
Physics lecture at NMT involves clicker questions--we have these little "iclicker"s and she flashes up multiple choice questions to demonstrate concepts and we vote. Then she explains why one choice is right and why the rest are wrong. Very helpful. During one such explanation, she asks something like "so if the graph of the force has a negative slope, the energy is pointing in which direction?" class mumbles in self-conscious confusion, and small child shouts "To the right!" we all laugh. THE KID WAS RIGHT. The kid continues to be right for the rest of the directional values of the graph.
This kid is like, 3 or 4 and pawned all of us at physics.
My conclusion from this: This kids parents know how to raise a kid. Math, science, probably reading, and other smart stuff. All that 10-piece puzzle, put the block in the right hole stuff can be done later when they're 20 and already running NASA.