Riding a merry-go-round as a kid, M.I.T. Physicist Jerrold Zacharias learned to "understand centrifugal force in my guts." Recalling that experience is his way of making the point that children learn better through discovery than by rote memorization of formulas, facts, dates and names, which makes them hate and reject what they are supposed to appreciate and learn. In 1956, this conviction led Zacharias, spurred by growing national concern over the quality of courses taught in U.S. schools, to develop a new way of teaching physics to high school students.
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