VV(13) - Foppl

[David Morris]

http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br/www-mem/95sup1/31cti.html

THE IMPORTANCE OF SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION AND THE RELATIONSHIP TEACHER/STUDENT

Among the several activities proposed to enlarge the understanding of 
science and scientific vocations, the initiation programs preconize that the 
precocious experience can develop a more genuine motivation, as well as the 
relationship with a well prepared master can stimulate scientific competence 
associated with human values as equality, solidarity and ethics. [...]

In Howard Gardner's book, Creating Minds (1996), we find examples of 
important people as Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham and 
Gandhi; who cite the strong presence of a master or a model in the childhood 
and/or adolescence hood or a stimulating school and important readings. 
[...]

Gardner also refers to the reading of a book written by an obscure physics 
teacher, August Foppl, that Einstein devoured in 1890 and it seems to have 
helped him to understand that mechanics is a part of the physics, and that 
the investigation of those topics embraces philosophical and epistemological 
subjects that cannot be ignored. Foppl wrote that book so that the students 
without a formal training could understand some scientific principles of 
physics, in which Einstein could identify some of his more persistent 
concerns.




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