Re: entropy and bio-evo


"g" <gillawton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Guy,
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I read recently on the web that professors of physics are using "silly"
songs and ditties, along with their lectures.

I first learned of a very popular mathematics professor who did that some
twenty or thirty years ago. Cannot think of his name at the moment but his
students learned so well from him that an album was made and sold, and did
quite well, on university campuses, I heard. SOME professors were critical
of that, arguing that it undermined the
respect and decorum which scholarliness should have.

Ego crap !

The best professors are the ones whose students ENJOY learning, ENJOY
expressing half-baked ideas of their own, and -- first, and foremost, LEARN.
If one has heard the song, "Nicolai Evanovich Lobachevsky was his name," one
remembers is twenty or thirty years later.

One of the laments of the BEST professors is that it is hard to get even
some of the brightest students to stop censoring themselves if a new and
different way of looking at something pops into their heads. Fortunately A.
Einstein and Richard Feynman were not afraid to be "silly" or "different,"
or even to SEEK to have original ideas.

Yet, isn't it strange that some people consider themselves learning police,
and feel constrained to try to embarrass and intimidate anyone who DARES to
look at something a little differently than what is politically correct (in
some instances) or the current standard consensus (in some instances) and
(in some instances) pedantic toadism.

You and I have heard the expression, "When you steal from one author, it's
plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."

I would like to have some fun with that one. Allow me to change it just a
little bit and say, "When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; when
you steal from many, it's research, but when you steal from your own highest
and best creative imagination and inspiration something a little bit off the
beaten track, you steal from those who never had an original idea their
peace of mind."

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