Gerry Haddad, Chief of CSIRO Industrial Physics, has made similar noises recently about the lack of interest in Physics in Australia.
You can some of his thoughts on the issue.
It strikes me that a lot of the lack of interest in physics amongst kids stems from a lack of interest in physics amongst their teachers. I would have thought that inspiring teachers were one of the best ways to enthuse kids. Mind you, finding a bunch of inspiring teachers in any field is no doubt a difficuly task.
Cheers,
Andrew
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Gerry Haddad, Chief of CSIRO Industrial Physics, has made similar noises recently about the lack of interest in Physics in Australia. You can some of his thoughts on the issue. It strikes me that a lot of the lack of interest in physics amongst kids stems from a lack of interest in physics amongst their teachers. I would have thought that inspiring teachers were one of the best ways to enthuse kids. Mind you, finding a bunch of inspiring teachers in any field is no doubt a difficuly task. Cheers, Andrew
My firewall/dns/smtp/pop server is a 486DX/25 with 16 megs of RAM and a whopping 105 Mb HD. It's a no-name PC which happily runs Debian. Nice and light on the power too which is good for a 24/7 server. Currently 279 days uptime.