Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.
I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.
I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.
I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!
The laissez-faire attitude to science education has resulted in a disaster exemplified by the fact that more young people are opting for media studies than physics.
Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'
Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.
Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.
There are physicists, and there are string theorists. Of course the string theorists are physicists, but the string theorists in general will not attend lectures on experimental physics. They will not be terribly concerned about the results of experiments. They will talk to one another.