Narrow and Deep

I'm still listening to the talks at the Academy of Sciences on teaching science and its applications, i.e. engineering.

Recently a distinguished Mexican physicist, Marcos Moshinsky, died.This year all Mexican children will see his picture on the official school calendar. He used to write a weekly opinion piece in Excelsior, a fine Mexican paper then.

About education he put it simply, we have to teach children to think. This may sound like an oxymoron, or pleonasm. The problem is that what most people think about what think is; is not the same that scientists, like Professor Moshinsky think, think is.

Narrow and Deep, teachers are saying this. I think Prof. Moshinsky will like the sound of that. Now we have to make sure that what teachers think when they read "Narrow and Deep", is similar to what scientists think.