JONATHAN JANSEN: What I learned from a man who knew how to teach
'To my surprise his office was small (lesson No1 — what’s in your head matters more than the size of your office) and books covered the walls'
22 June 2017 - 07:50
AS THE small plane bumped through the clouds to settle on the rather small airport tarmac in the rural university town of Ithaca, New York, I recalled that landing 32 years ago in the very same place. I was far more nervous than excited to study at this superb Ivy League school, Cornell University, known at the time for greats like the astronomer Carl Sagan and the developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner. It was Sagan, after all, who brought home to South African television screens the marvels of the universe through his popular science series Cosmos.
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