Abstract Quote by Felix Klein

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a…

— Immanuel Kant

Mathematics are one of the fundamentaries of educationalizing our youth.

— George W. Bush

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of…

— Lynn Steen

For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject…

— Keith Devlin

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

“progressive enrichment of children’s intuitions, leaning heavily on their precocious understanding of quantitative manipulations and of counting. One should first arouse their curiosity with…

— Stanislas Dehaene

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

— Hermann Weyl

Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be,…

— Paul Lockhart

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

— Richard Courant

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is…

— Hermann Weyl

This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's…

— Maria Montessori

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

— Shakuntala Devi