Quote by Paul Lockhart Download Open image ““[Students] are being trained to ape arguments, not to intend them.”” — Paul Lockhart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“A student should not be taught more than he can think about.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Some men are not capable of learning anything that does not agree with their own opinions.” — Rachel Neumeier Copy Share Image
“The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours.” — Jose A. Bowen Copy Share Image
“What makes you think I am not teaching you? Aside from the fact that you refuse to learn.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It is better to leave each one in his own opinion than to enter into arguments.” — St. Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them. — Thomas Dekker Copy Share Image
“are less confident in a choice when they are asked to produce more arguments to support it” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people;… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is the music of reason . To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there" all along… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard?… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion −… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making — even more than storytelling, painting, or music - is… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a production being… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
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