[meteorite-list] To the dreamers

[lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu]

Hi Mal:

We (actually Nancy) uses this at every teacher workshop that we do. It
really points out the importance of learning astronomy (or any other
science) by doing it and not just lecturing!

Larry

On Sun, April 8, 2007 8:09 am, Mal Bishop wrote:
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> When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
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> When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
> When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
> When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide,
> and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured
> with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became
> tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wandered off by myself,
> In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
> Looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
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>
> Walt
> Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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> Just a little something to ponder for all of us who racked our brains
> whether in the formal halls of academia, or in our on self imposed
> intellectual pursuits, meteorically or otherwise.
>
> Happy Easter to all you care!
> Mal
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