Forces Making Quotes by W. W. Sawyer

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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…
• Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No,…
• When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because…
• You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took…
• The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The…
• Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the…
• Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

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