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This fabulous story he found on the Internet Juan Morales and published in the newspaper Juventud Rebelde of Cuba. Portrays teachers who do not conform to transmit knowledge, but who aspire to something higher: the teaching of thinking. Today I share with readers convinced that warn his great wit.

Sir Ernest Rutherford, president of the Royal Society and Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908, had who once received a call from a colleague. He was about to suspend a student for the answer to a problem of physics, despite the boy's claim that he was absolutely correct. My friend asked me to impartial arbitration.

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The question read: "Show how you can set the height of a building using a barometer." The student had answered: "Take the barometer to the roof of the building and tied a long rope. Then I pick up the steel frame and measure. The length of the rope is the height of the building. "

The answer posed a serious problem because, although it is undoubtedly correct, if granted the student with the highest score, you certify a high level in physics, which was not confirmed. I asked that he be given another chance, this time with the caveat that should demonstrate their knowledge of physics.

Five minutes later he had not written anything. I encouraged him to start and he said he had many answers that his difficulty was to choose what was best. I begged to be decided at a time. In the next minute he wrote: "I take the barometer, I throw it to the ground from the roof and calculate the decay time with a stopwatch. Then apply the formula Height = 0.5 A / t ^ 2. and so also get high. " Read

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