Colburn: That’s something a number of the other Marconi fellows have mentioned, the importance of being with other curious people.

Kao: I think that’s why one could say ‘is our teaching really effective?’ How should a way of educating students, how should it be structured and delivered? It’s extremely difficult. Intrinsically you are implying the order that you can lay it out in, but I think we would not be able to construct the best order. Because we really probably, like if you look at the kitten, they will explore and play and tackle. I mean the wild world, it’s always starting as a child. So there is no one way to do things. The person that starts without too much constraint tend to do things differently. It depends on the parental guidance. Some parents will say, “Don’t do this. Don’t do this,” and then the little guys can note exactly how they just know: “We mustn’t do that.” That essentially cuts the possible routes that could be opened to something interesting.

I like this... from an interview one year ago:
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Oral-History:Charles_Kao

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