The Lecture

Abstract

One day we were walking down a hallway, and Kim was looking in the rooms as a young, rather inquisitive girl does. She saw a scene which for her was very unusual—over a hundred students sitting in a room and watching one person talk. . . . She asked me the rather obvious question, “What are all those people doing?” I came up with what I thought was an excellent answer, “They’re learning physics.” Her response was “Do they just sit there?” (p. 114)