Confusion Quote by Paul Lockhart

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

[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

“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

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

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

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

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

— Paul Lockhart

“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

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

“[Students] are being trained to ape arguments, not to intend them.”

— Paul Lockhart

“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

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