NAME:
Mr. Sam Farrar
SCHOOL:
Paul VI Catholic High School
CLASSES:
Honors Physics, AP Physics B, AP Environmental Science
PHONE/EMAIL:
cell 703-869-9054, sfarrar@paulvi.net
Mr. Farrar became a teacher in 2002 after a 33+ year in the Space & Satellite
industry that began working at Cape Kennedy, where he met his wife, and ended
his career by helping to launch the world's 1st mobile satellite service.
Mr. Farrar attened high school in the great state of Alabama and is a
graduate of the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida where
he graduated with a BS degree in Physics and played both basketball &
baseball for 4 years.
2010/2011 will Mr. Farrar's 6th year at Paul VI. Mr. Farrar is also "Coach
Farrar" - coaching the Girls Volleyball team. When not teaching or coaching
Mr. Farrar loves to sail with his wife on the Chesapeake Bay and play with
his wonderful three grandchildren; Grace, Wade & Myles!
One other small thing - Mr. Farrar is a HUGE, I mean HUGE, Alabama football
fan!
ROLL TIDE - 2010 NATIONAL CHAMPS - 13 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
All of us want to get that "5" on the AP exam or an "A" for the course - and
I will do my best to quide you towards those goals. However, my primary goal
is to nuture, expand or instill in you a love of curiousity about the world
within which we live. Curiosity is what drives almost all aspects of our
existence; from science to history to art to religion -- all of these
disciplines require us to be curious in order to achieve the level of
understanding we desire.
I hope you walk out of my class with a willingness to use the tools God and
scoiety have given you to not just be content with "learning" what has been
taught to you but to push deeper in topics that interest you and are of
importance to the world you live in. If we all simply "believed what was in
front of us" we'd still believe the world was flat.
Read everything you can and question it in a mature and analytical manner.
Take what is read, add in your own explorations on that topic and make
your "new" conclusions. Your conclusion may be the same or diffrent than what
you orginally began with but it is now "YOUR" conclusion!
So my goal is for you to walk out of my class and into the world with a
healthy curiousity for the world we all live in today as well as the world
you will live in when you children are in the very same seat you are
currently sitting in!!!