“You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.”

—  Eric Mazur

explaining his techniques of active learning, in From Questions to Concepts: Interactive Teaching in Physics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBYrKPoVFwg, Harvard BokCenter, 2008.

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