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Arithmetic Quotes by John Taylor Gatto
- Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for…
- It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but…
- How will they learn to read? you ask, and my answer is Remember the lessons of Massachusetts. When children are given whole lives instead of…
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- It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less… — Benjamin Franklin
- God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how… — Thomas Brooks
- There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which… — Wallace D. Wattles
- It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do." — T. Harv Eker
- As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts… — Roger Bacon
- Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers… — Bertrand Russell
- A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service… — Carl Friedrich Gauss