8 Mar
2011
8 Mar
'11
11:13 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Guy Haworth <g.haworth@reading.ac.uk> wrote:
Before my lecture to the first-year students, we discussed how time seemed to speed up as the year went on.
Someone said it was the increased gravitational pull of approaching exams.
Yeh, it's relativity, said another ... e = m.c^2
I'm not sure why, but at that point I decided that:
Education = Motivation * Concentration squared
Guy Haworth :-)
Of course that's not the full story. More precisely, Education = Motivation * Concentration squared + (half the Motivation) * (Vitality of the teacher) squared which of course follows from the second order approximation of success, denoted by a lowercase gamma. ;) -Robert