Posts Tagged ‘schools’

Time, and motivation

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg. It’s a presentation by Professor Philip Zimbardo.

And this one – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc – on motivation, by Dan Pink.

Oldie but goodie: Richard Feynman on textbooks

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Excerpt from “Judging Books by Their Covers” which appeared as a chapter in “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” (published in 1985 by W.W. Norton & Company):

http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm

Vintage published my 1992 copy of the book. I also have “What do you care what other people think?”, “Tuva or Bust”, QED – the strange theory of light and matter” and “The character of physical law” as well as James Gleick’s book “Genius”.