After decades of sending
hundreds of its brightest students abroad to study engineering, Botswana will now provide its students with engineering education at home.
Not exact matches
One hour and 34 minutes after the
bright tail
of the Kosmos 3M rocket disappeared from view, more than one
hundred students are checking their watches nervously.
The drumbeat
of a new school year literally began
bright and early this morning in Marshall, as
hundreds of students packed the school's gymnasium.
Not just understand it well enough to say lots
of nifty words about it — well enough to start from the basic empirical laws and principles and derive and demonstrate nearly the whole thing through the introductory classical level at the blackboard, without notes, as I do several times a year in front
of several
hundred very
bright students a year, working with a team
of Ph.D. physicists who are my co-instructors (with perhaps a century
of teaching experience between us who, one would think, would correct my errors if I made any egregious ones along the way).
However, the
students enter the class knowing that no matter how smart they are, no matter how clever, no matter how iconoclastic, they are children compared to the collective combined work
of not one or two but
hundreds, thousands, tens
of thousands
of the
brightest minds our species has yet produced, compared to the work
of millions
of people that have built and continue to build our base
of consistent knowledge.
It is the natural outcome
of putting
hundreds of ambitions,
bright students together for three intense years.