FEYNMAN: KNOWING VERSUS UNDERSTANDING

 

A beautiful explanation by the brilliant Nobel Prize laureate Richard Feynman about the importance of the teacher addressing their audience’s ability to understand. Indeed, when we face an audience, we must remember that we are not doing so because we are experts in the field we plan on discussing with them but rather because we are experts in the field of explaining that field. We should not be under the impression that we stand before them as subject matter experts but rather that we stand before them as teachers.