Petition to let Morty back in the 'other' rooms

Originally Posted by Mortimer

Why do your students like you? Are you a serious teacher who really wants to help mold them and make them see better?

Or is because everyone gets an A?

Because I like what I teach.
I get overly excited and make a fool of myself.
And I have this strange belief that everyone really has a natural interest in the way the world works. It just has to be brought out. So I like doing demonstrations and labs and asking lots of what if questions.

If the teacher asks a what if I now do this, after doing a demonstration, (changes the demo a bit) and the kids can predict what should happen, and indeed it does happen, one knows their model of the way the world works is decent. So I do another what if. And it gets quite fun when the what ifs involve experiments that are counterintuitive. Then they see what you see (only better sometimes which is most exciting) and everyone gets very happy.

So I have fun. I like my job.

The only way I feel like I a molding anybody, is just bringing out the natural curiosity that already exists. I dont try and mold. I just like kids to ask questions about why things are the way they are. Not just simply look at some physical event, and not ask why.

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Because I like what I teach.
I get overly excited and make a fool of myself.
And I have this strange belief that everyone really has a natural interest in the way the world works. It just has to be brought out. So I like doing demonstrations and labs and asking lots of what if questions.

If the teacher asks a what if I now do this, after doing a demonstration, (changes the demo a bit) and the kids can predict what should happen, and indeed it does happen, one knows their model of the way the world works is decent. So I do another what if. And it gets quite fun when the what ifs involve experiments that are counterintuitive. Then they see what you see (only better sometimes which is most exciting) and everyone gets very happy.

So I have fun. I like my job.

The only way I feel like I a molding anybody, is just bringing out the natural curiosity that already exists. I dont try and mold. I just like kids to ask questions about why things are the way they are. Not just simply look at some physical event, and not ask why.

Hey ..that's pretty good!


Molding was a bad term to use on my part.





I should have taken physics,but I didn't.I read the book Earth,Universe and Atom ( like a physics books for idiots) and like it very much.


It's good liking your job and being a good teacher.Too many don't...I think.