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Students Quotes by George Polya
- There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain…
- The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve…
- Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had gone off to…
- Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for…
- One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection with…
- The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider…
- To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he does not sense…
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- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of… — Charles Kendall Adams
- I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle.… — Ann Bancroft
- I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2.… — Tyra Banks
- In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently… — Dave Barry
- If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. — Lynda Barry