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Today, in remembrance of Robin Williams, am just re-running material from a post I did one year ago:
Came across this quirky little posting that linked together math, teaching, and one of my favorite Robin Williams' movies, "Dead Poets Society":
http://casualcalculations.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/dead-mathematicians-society/
(the post is probably even more pertinent today with all the debate over math reform, than it was a year ago)
Watch the scene in the above post and then, if you've seen the movie, re-live the ending, that still tugs at me (not specific to math and perhaps only meaningful if you've seen the film):
...and apparently I'm not the only one moved by the above scene; check out the Twitter feeds started last night for "stands on desk" and "standing on desk":
https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=stands%20on%20desk&src=typd
https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=standing%20on%20desk&src=typd
R.I.P. Mr. Keating. . . .
ADDENDUM: [There are lots of wonderful tributes to Williams pouring in today, but the best one I've read thus far comes from Russell Brand in The Guardian: http://tinyurl.com/ltr2qo9
(VERY worth reading; H/T to N. Ghoussoub for pointing me to it)]
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