"Surely you're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
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Writer: Richard Phillips Feynman
Genre: Essay
Event of writing: The tenure of Feynman at Princeton University after he was rejected by MIT.
Major Theme: Knowledge can be accessed anywhere. A learner should not be careless when it to learning.
Richard P. Feynman, USA (1918-1988)
Summary in English
This essay is based on the writer's past experience about his college education regarding knowledge and methods. The writer claims that knowledge must be based on scientific methods and it must be gained through the interdisciplinary approach. So, this essay tries to show that traditional method of learning is baseless and misleading. Furthermore, a talented and genuine man can adjust anywhere in the world. Interest is the most important motivation I education though what and how one learns can be measured.
Richard P. Feynman was a physics student who completed his undergraduate from MIT, America. He loved his institution too much so that he wanted to do graduation from there. However, Prof. Slater did not accept his enrollment because Feynman had to find out what and how the rest of world was going and doing. So, according to the suggestion of Prof. Slater, he decided to go to Princeton College for his graduation.
He went to Princeton College with his father by car. He also got room there. He stayed in the hostel with his friends. The college looked like the imitation of Oxford or Cambridge University. One day the Dean of Princeton College, Prof. Eisenhart organized a Tea Party to welcome the new students. Feynman was not very familiar about the culture and manners of such social gathering. He got confused how to behave and where to sit. Mr. Feynman was asked if he liked cream of lemon tea. But he replied that he would like both. Listen his reply, all people started laughing. At the same time, Mr. Eisenhart commented, "Surely, You are Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Gradually, Feynman learned the manners of social gatherings at Princeton College. Then, he started going to tea party, dinner party as well. At the very beginning, he used to sit the physics group students but later he started sitting with the groups of biologists, zoologists and philosophers. Mr. Feynman became the talented and genuine student out of the college students. He understood the importance of interdisciplinary approach in learning. So, he realized why Princeton College was right for him.
Mr. Feynman got many opportunities to gain knowledge in different disciplines during his graduation from Princeton College. He got golden opportunity to observe cyclotron about how it works. He was also invited to conduct a seminar on Biology by Prof. Watson at Harvard University. So, he gave a lecture to the Biology students of Harvard University.
Although Mr. Feynman was a physics student, he learned a lot of things and gained experiences in Biology. He loves physics more but equally he prefers to gain knowledge from different disciplines.
TEXT PROFILE:
Writer: Richard Phillips Feynman
Genre: Essay
Event of writing: The tenure of Feynman at Princeton University after he was rejected by MIT.
Major Theme: Knowledge can be accessed anywhere. A learner should not be careless when it to learning.
Richard P. Feynman, USA (1918-1988)
Summary in English
This essay is based on the writer's past experience about his college education regarding knowledge and methods. The writer claims that knowledge must be based on scientific methods and it must be gained through the interdisciplinary approach. So, this essay tries to show that traditional method of learning is baseless and misleading. Furthermore, a talented and genuine man can adjust anywhere in the world. Interest is the most important motivation I education though what and how one learns can be measured.
Richard P. Feynman was a physics student who completed his undergraduate from MIT, America. He loved his institution too much so that he wanted to do graduation from there. However, Prof. Slater did not accept his enrollment because Feynman had to find out what and how the rest of world was going and doing. So, according to the suggestion of Prof. Slater, he decided to go to Princeton College for his graduation.
He went to Princeton College with his father by car. He also got room there. He stayed in the hostel with his friends. The college looked like the imitation of Oxford or Cambridge University. One day the Dean of Princeton College, Prof. Eisenhart organized a Tea Party to welcome the new students. Feynman was not very familiar about the culture and manners of such social gathering. He got confused how to behave and where to sit. Mr. Feynman was asked if he liked cream of lemon tea. But he replied that he would like both. Listen his reply, all people started laughing. At the same time, Mr. Eisenhart commented, "Surely, You are Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Gradually, Feynman learned the manners of social gatherings at Princeton College. Then, he started going to tea party, dinner party as well. At the very beginning, he used to sit the physics group students but later he started sitting with the groups of biologists, zoologists and philosophers. Mr. Feynman became the talented and genuine student out of the college students. He understood the importance of interdisciplinary approach in learning. So, he realized why Princeton College was right for him.
Mr. Feynman got many opportunities to gain knowledge in different disciplines during his graduation from Princeton College. He got golden opportunity to observe cyclotron about how it works. He was also invited to conduct a seminar on Biology by Prof. Watson at Harvard University. So, he gave a lecture to the Biology students of Harvard University.
Although Mr. Feynman was a physics student, he learned a lot of things and gained experiences in Biology. He loves physics more but equally he prefers to gain knowledge from different disciplines.
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