Putting Feynman aside, this is how -all- teachers should be. I had maybe two in all my years of public school that came anywhere close. It's sad that teaching is not a highly paid and prestigious job. And it's a two way street, most of the teachers now are the same awful ones I had, latching on to statements like mine, yet demanding more money. It's a race to the bottom, and a detriment to our country.
The best teacher I never had (2016)
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#22I feel like I'm being very negative today, but it feels like this post gets more attention because Bill Gates has become somewhat of a celebrity and he wrote it. I'm not saying I dislike Gates, I'm not saying his celebrity status hasn't been earned, etc. Just saying the content itself is kind of...unremarkable? I feel like every friend I have from highschool absolutely loves Feynman, we all read and discussed his "Si…
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#24"...While helping develop the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, he entertained himself by figuring out how to break into the safes that contained top-secret research..." I did not know he helped develop the atomic bomb. That really nice to know that he helped the States obliterate thousands of people who did not need to die afterall.
What little Feynman spoke about the bomb after the war makes it seem like he didn't agree with the way it was used either.
Additionally, many other physicists fought the way it was used at the time.