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盖茨博客上纪念费曼的文章 https://www./Education/The-Best-Teacher-I-Never-Had 纪念费曼诞辰100周年 《走进费曼丛书》 长按二维码购买  此生未遇之良师费曼（摄于1984年，来源：wiki） 撰文 比尔·盖茨 翻译 林开亮 校对 小鹿 转自 赛先生 如涉版权请联系编辑微信 @iwish89 哲学园鸣谢 30年前，我与朋友度假，结果爱上了费曼（Richard Feynman）。 我与朋友计划了一场旅行，并打算在旅途消遣中同时学点小东西。我们逛了一个地方大学的影展，发现其中有费曼的一个物理演讲，就去看了看。我们如此喜欢，看了两次才罢休。费曼有这等绝妙的本事，能够把物理讲得既明白又有趣。我立即就想去看他的更多演讲，此后就成了他的铁杆粉丝。后来我买下了这些演讲的版权，并让微软把它们放到网上以免费共享。 1965年，费曼因为粒子物理方面的工作而分享了诺贝尔奖。2015年，在这一盛典的50周年庆，加州理工学院——他1988年过世之前曾任教多年的地方——采访我，问我是什么使得他如此与众不同。这是我发给他们的视频。 在视频中，我特别喜欢费曼解释火是怎么回事的那一段。他在视频中，我特别喜欢费曼解释火是怎么回事的那一段。他在传授知识时如此愉悦——你可以看到他满面红光。而且他讲得如此清楚，人人都可以明白。 从这方面说，费曼跟我在美国许多中小学遇到的所有令人惊讶的老师有许多共同点。走进他们的课堂，你立即就会感受到他们的活力四射——这是他们吸引学生的方式——和他们对所教科目的热忱。这些老师并不出名，但他们值得得到如费曼一样的敬重。要是有一个诺贝尔奖是专门授予那些使得高中代数课堂生动而有趣的老师，我知道有哪几位候选人是我想提名的。 很巧的是，费曼出名，不仅仅因为他是一位卓越的老师和世界级的科学家；他同时也是一个有个性的人。他翻译玛雅象形文字，他喜欢表演邦戈鼓。当他在洛斯阿拉莫斯协助研发原子弹时，他通过破解装有最高机密研究的保险柜的密码以自娱。（费曼将自己塑造为一个多姿多彩的人。他的同事盖尔曼（Murray Gell-Mann）——另一位诺贝尔奖得主，有一次评论道：“费曼是一位伟大的物理学家，但他投入了大量的精力来演绎他自己的传奇。”） 如果你想对费曼及其工作了解更多，这里有一些建议：
本文译自比尔·盖茨的博客，原文标题为The Best Teacher I Never Had，发表于2016年1月27日，见下。 原文链接：https://www./Education/The-Best-Teacher-I-Never-Had） 长按二维码或点击阅读原文购买 Feynman’s Fan The Best Teacher I Never Had By Bill Gates | January 27, 2016 Thirty years ago I went on vacation and fell for Richard Feynman. A friend and I were planning a trip together and wanted to mix a little learning in with our relaxation. We looked at a local university’s film collection, saw that they had one of his lectures on physics, and checked it out. We loved it so much that we ended up watching it twice. Feynman had this amazing knack for making physics clear and fun at the same time. I immediately went looking for more of his talks, and I’ve been a big fan ever since. Years later I bought the rights to those lectures and worked with Microsoft to get them posted online for free. In 1965, Feynman shared a Nobel Prize for work on particle physics. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of that honor, the California Institute of Technology—where he taught for many years before his death in 1988—asked for some thoughts about what made him so special. Here’s the video I sent: In that video, I especially love the way Feynman explains how fire works. He takes such obvious delight in knowledge—you can see his face light up. And he makes it so clear that anyone can understand it. In that sense, Feynman has a lot in common with all the amazing teachers I’ve met in schools across the country. You walk into their classroom and immediately feel the energy—the way they engage their students—and their passion for whatever subject they’re teaching. These teachers aren’t famous, but they deserve just as much respect and admiration as someone like Feynman. If there were a Nobel for making high school algebra exciting and fun, I know a few teachers I would nominate. Incidentally, Feynman wasn’t famous just for being a great teacher and a world-class scientist; he was also quite a character. He translated Mayan hieroglyphics. He loved to play the bongos. 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. (Feynman cultivated this image as a colorful guy. His colleague Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize–winner in his own right, once remarked, “Feynman was a great scientist, but he spent a great deal of his effort generating anecdotes about himself.”) Here are some suggestions if you’d like to know more about Feynman or his work: The Messenger Lectures on Physics. These are the talks that first captivated me back in the 1980s and that you see briefly in the video above. The site is a few years old, but you can watch for free along with some helpful commentary. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher is a collection of the most accessible parts of Feynman’s famous Caltech lectures on physics. He recounted his adventures in two very good books, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think? You won’t learn a lot about physics, but you’ll have a great time hearing his stories. |
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