1/ This post re-enforces my support of the Myth of the Lone Genius, as tweeted here: 6.12.2021 (1/ ) Why I refuse to "cancel" or "decolonialize" Euclid Geometry, Archimedes Rule and Newton's Law, despite peers pressure? Because, as explained here ucla.in/2Qg0Rfs (p.8),
https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1408833454880473088
2/ putting a human face behind theorems and discoveries makes science "not a book of facts and recipes, but a struggle of the human mind to unveil the mysteries of nature." Personalizing science education makes each student "an active participant in, not a passive recipient of,
3/ those theorems and discoveries". Thus, regardless of how many collaborators Newton had, telling a student that by an effort of intellect, curiosity, and hard labor he/she can discover the one thing missing from the puzzle, we are turning that students into a
4/ mini-genius and, occasionally, into a real genius. Michael Faraday would not have become a Faraday if it were not for the book "Conversations on Chemistry" by Jane Marcet which is, essentially, a "you can perhaps do it too" personalization of Chemistry.
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