Make it Clear by Patrick Henry Winston

Author:Patrick Henry Winston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIT Press

The lecture was not particularly clear or organized, and it certainly was not practiced, but clearly Minsky was passionate about the idea that a computer could do advanced mathematical manipulation. As I walked out, I said to my friend, “I want to do what he does.” I was inspired.

Exhibit your passion explicitly

How do you let your students know you are passionate about what you are teaching? One way is to just tell them:

There you have it, a program that tells us Macbeth is about revenge and Pyrrhic victory. What could be cooler than that!

So there it is, a program that can be said, in a suitcase word way, to be self-aware. I think that is interesting beyond description!

No doubt about it, 99% of your DNA is the same as that of a chimpanzee. I can tell you without a doubt that I think that 1% must be pretty important!

Picasso painted Guernica in response to the 1937 destruction of a Basque village in northern Spain by Nazi German and Fascist Italian bombers. I cannot think how anyone could look at the painting without feeling its incredible anti-war message!

Words matter, and Kennedy’s words mattered a lot. In 1962, he said we would go to the moon in that decade, and we did. It was a masterpiece! It inspired the nation! It inspired me!

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