[KwisatzHaderack]

> Lee became Dr. Fermi’s sole doctoral student in theoretical physics, meeting with him every week. It was an extraordinary learning experience, partly because of Dr. Fermi’s teaching technique, which Dr. Lee explained in the 2007 interview with the Nobel Institute. “‘You see,’ he said, ‘there are things that I would like to know,’” Dr. Lee recalled Dr. Fermi saying. “‘Lee, why don’t you look up and give me a lecture next week.’” “I was very happy to teach Fermi,” Dr. Lee added. “Of course, this is an excellent way of building the student’s confidence. And then he would ask me questions and I would have to answer.”

Was fascinated by this. His advisor, Fermi, made Lee teach him stuff, not the other way around!

[busyant]

> Fermi, made Lee teach him stuff, not the other way around!

In grad school, one of my profs said something to the effect of, "We expect you to aggressively eradicate any ignorance you have on the whatever papers we assign to you before lecture."

Then we were Socratically interrogated in lecture. For me, it was a great way to learn, even if I'm not remotely in the class of Fermi and Lee.

[lokimedes]

Pope without pontification!

[Koshkin]

Indeed, Fermi was called "the Pope of physics."

Fermi’s “intuito fenomenale” — phenomenal intuition — and his near infallibility in predicting the results of experiments were characteristics that prompted colleagues at the University of Rome to designate him “the Pope.”