O Americano Outra Vez by Richard Feynam Essay Example

Richard Feynman’s ‘O Americano Outran Vez’ tries to address learning. At word level, he looks at learning of the meaning of a word in terms of other words which are used. He says that education should be practical and even quotes Ann Pachet who says “to learn a word you had to know the definition and to own the word you have to use it in a sentence”. He thus explains that this is what was missing in the Brazilian education in that, “though the students were ‘learning theories’ what they missed was the practical part which meant application of their studies”. The worst part, he says, is the fact that the education system and curriculum denies the teachers and students any creativity or diverse thinking. He thus declares the process one dimensional because the student