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> [You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours to walk 6 miles. You have only to apply the same common sense to stones rolling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-w-sawyer/you-know-what-speed-is-you-would-not-believe-a-man-who-claimed-to/)

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## More by W. W. Sawyer

> [Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-w-sawyer/very-few-people-realize-the-enormous-bulk-of-contemporary-mathematics/)

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> [The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-w-sawyer/the-desire-to-explore-thus-marks-out-the-mathematician-this-is-one-of/)

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> [The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-w-sawyer/the-present-syllabus-in-our-high-schools-corresponds-almost-exactly/)

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> [In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-w-sawyer/in-mathematics-if-a-pattern-occurs-we-can-go-on-to-ask-why-does-it/)

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> [Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No, that's wrong.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-w-sawyer/most-remarks-made-by-children-consist-of-correct-ideas-very-badly/)

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> [You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-w-sawyer/you-know-what-speed-is-you-would-not-believe-a-man-who-claimed-to/)

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> [When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because our imagination…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-w-sawyer/when-we-find-ourselves-unable-to-reason-as-one-often-does-when/)

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> [Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-w-sawyer/bad-teaching-is-teaching-which-presents-an-endless-procession-of/)

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