On Mar 6, 2008, at 7:28 AM, Dr. Keith Taber wrote:

> A shame this was not published - the editor could
> have offered the right to reply. (Which is more
> than Prof Cromer offered his 'constructivist'
> guest presenter.)
>
> Keith
>
>

I agree, but there are those who apparently value appearances over
substance.

Dewey

>
> At 10:43 -0700 3/3/08, Dewey Dykstra wrote:
>> Hi All:
>> In 1999 I was asked by the editor of the Book Review section of The
>> Physics Teacher (an AAPT journal) to write a review of Cromer's
>> book. I resisted the original invitation because I was pretty sure
>> there was little I could write that would be complimentary of the
>> ...
> --
> Dr. Keith S. Taber
> University of Cambridge Faculty of Education
>
>
>


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"The problem in science is you never get to see the yak!"
--D. Dykstra, Science for Monks Project, 2006.

"...a physics major has to be trained to use today's physics whereas
a physics teacher has to be trained to see a development of physical
theories in his students' minds." -- H. Niedderer in
"International Conference on Physics Teachers' Education Proceedings"
Dortmund: University of Dortmund, p. 151, 1992.

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of
instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of
inquiry; for
this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in
need of
freedom; without this the plant goes to wreck and ruin without fail."
--A.
Einstein in "Autobiographical Notes," 1949.

"Now there are two theorems that form together the cardinal hinge on
which the whole structure of physical science turns. These theorems
are: (1) THERE IS A REAL OUTER WORLD WHICH EXISTS
INDEPENDENTLY OF OUR ACT OF KNOWING, and, (2) THE REAL
OUTER WORLD IS NOT DIRECTLY KNOWABLE." --M. Planck in
"Where Is Science Going?," 1932. (EMPHASIS in the original)

"As a result of modern research in physics, the ambition and hope,
still cherished by most authorities of the last century, that physical
science could offer a photographic picture and true image of reality
had to be abandoned." --M. Jammer in "Concepts of Force," 1957.

"If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make
reality the basis of our philosophy? ...But we cannot distinguish
what is real about the universe without a theory...it makes no sense
to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what
reality is independent of a theory."--S. Hawking in "Black Holes
and Baby Universes" 1993.
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