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Leaving teaching: a difficult choice

SEP 01, 1983
James E. Mowbray

For eleven years physics was my hobby, and, fortunately for me, my source of employment. As a physics teacher in the public school system, Rabi’s words served as the philosophical basis of my teaching long before I ever read them. I had a love affair with physics—its mysteries, its doers and shakers, its application to the benefit of human beings and society. I tried to develop a cohesive teaching strategy consistent with this philosophy that would instill in my students a similar love of physics and appreciation for the work of mankind in unlocking the secrets of nature.

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James E. Mowbray, EMC Controls, Cockeysville, Maryland.

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Volume 36, Number 9

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