My high school physics teacher spent a week teaching students how to use a slide rule.

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Checque was a four-year honors student, said his physics teacher Doug Knipple, but rather than go to college, he chose to go straight into the Navy.

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Mr Roy said his father started out as a physics teacher at Shawlands Academy in Glasgow, before completing a doctorate in the 1950s, which opened the doorway to his lengthy career as an academic and professor.

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Simon Clarkson, a physics and science teacher from Leicestershire, said "rushed-through" changes meant children would be left with a curriculum of poor quality.

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For physics, a change in the teacher-training requirements would also help.

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Turn-of-the-century Harvard University once required applicants to perform, under teacher supervision, several of 40 physics experiments and submit a record of their observations and measurements.

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Imagine if a group of them got together, hired a teacher and learned the classics or theoretical physics or quantum mechanics or linguistics the old fashioned way?

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