Who Was Richard Feynman?

One of the most brilliant and unique physicists who ever lived was a man born in New York City in 1918, who grew to win the Nobel Prize for his work in Quantum Electrodynamics. What made him so unique was the way he learned to learn as a child, encouraged to follow his own interests with the support of his mother and father. Feynman held a view throughout his life that education could only truly be achieved through Natural Curiosity. He believed in the importance of asking questions and challenging assumptions, and performed experiments of his own in order to uncover knowledge. He favored understanding over memorization, a method which was (and remains today) the dominant philosophy of most modern educational institutions. Below I have posted a video outlining the story of his life along with the educational tenets he lived by. Look for the upcoming article also entitled: ‘What is the Feynman Technique?’