Why I Love the Khan Academy
Though I'm a fan of Feynman anecdotes, I've always disagreed with the point of the one used in this article.  Names <i>are</i> important.  You know what you get by knowing the name of the brown-throated thrush?  You get an identifier by which to look up all the collected knowledge of humanity on the brown-throated thrush, and you gain the ability to talk about it with other people.<p>In the online SICP lectures there's a nice point about names and how they give you power over things, but I couldn't find it right away.