Walter H.G. Lewin, is a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is 75 years old but when he talks about Physics his face lights up like that of a child and the most important thing is that his passion for teaching transmits it to his students. What he says at the end of the video: "Physics works, I'm telling you!" (physics works, I assure you) is a wonderful conclusion. And is that a teacher like this is remembered for a lifetime, because and frankly, do you remember at least five professors of your entire academic career?
Millions of people around the world have seen the Master Lewin's master classes at MIT through the internet, the last shortly before retiring in 2011. This month he presented his book in Barcelona: For the love of Physics, in which he has made a complete review of his wonderful way of transmitting his knowledge.
When this teacher is asked about what he thinks of teachers unable to excite students, he categorically responds that he considers them to be evildoers because they end up making knowledge tedious and that is why people hate physics. He Professor Lewin is of the belief that if a student does not learn it is the fault of the teacher.
The teacher has shown the opposite, he achieves the impossible with his students and manages to make magnetism, electricity or optics exciting subjects and attached to phenomena that we can see and touch to isolate them from the complex mathematical they have associated through the corresponding equations
The teacher explains very clearly that one day you have to make the students laugh and another day you have to make them cry. In class I pass 30,000 volts through my body to turn on a fluorescent light, turn off the light, my hair lifts. It hurts a little but nothing can happen to me. I am not a magician, I am a physicist.
In his more than 40 years of teaching, The goal of each of their classes has been to get students to see Science with new eyes, provoke in them a stimulus that will last beyond the equations.
Despite his retirement, his classes continue to extend the love for Physics, the professor has told him that teachers write to him from places like India, where they have no resources to do the demonstrations, but that he tells them to use their classes They are there and they are free.
For this magnificent teacher has started a revolution in the way of teaching And it's only the begining. Many teachers should see how they teach and learn that teaching not only tell the knowledge but also motivate the passion for saying knowledge in students.
Finally, we leave another video, edited by lainformacion.com that includes Spanish subtitles and shows the Dutch astrophysicist doing some of his experiments in the classroom. And it is that his demonstrations with pendulums, rainbows and electric shocks are immortalized in his book "For the love of physics" that has just been put up for sale for 19 euros.
For the love of physics: From the end of the rainbow to the border of time. A journey through the wonders of physics (DEBATE)
Today in Amazon for € 18.89
