551 stories

You're gonna find that I teach basically in stories. You can call them parables. Brian went through and found that in the last four years, I've told 551 stories in my lectures. Five or six years, whatever — he had to watch all of it. I tell stories because I thought back, what do I remember from my freshman year? I remember the stories. I don't remember what they taught me. I learned about the Bohr atom and I learned about Miller indices, but I remember the stories. So I prefer to teach in stories. I think the students in general think they're interesting stories. Even my own children think some of them are interesting, although my daughter and son now say, well dad you already told me that one. And I don't have an infinite number of stories.