Ability Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a course -…

— Keith Devlin

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

— Samuel Johnson

We need to develop a robust set of tools - strategies and routines - that help us address student variance. It's easy to come…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do…

— Samuel Johnson

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the…

— Isaac Watts

“People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures…

— Samuel Johnson

Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was honored to…

— Neal Stephenson

I cannot waste time in these classes and these books, memorizing the weak assumptions of lesser mortals.

— John Nash

The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know…

— Harry Wong

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a…

— Bill Gates

Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can…

— Sebastian Thrun

If you teach three university courses a day, you need something to turn your mind off.

— Coleman Barks