"[The error in the teaching of mathematics is……" — Morris Kline
"[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to be accepted by students solely on the basis of the teacher's assurance that it will be helpful in later life. [And yet,] mathematlcs is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds."
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13 Quotes by Morris Kline
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Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for…
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On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any,…
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The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity,…
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Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
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Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
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Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.
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Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.
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A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.
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The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even…
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A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.
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The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution…
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There is no rigorous definition of rigor.
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