"I don't see how it's doing society any……" — 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 diagrams and clear memories of hating them."
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24 Quotes by Paul Lockhart
Paul Lockhart has 24 quotes on this site.
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Mathematics is the music of reason.
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To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a…
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Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.
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It is the story that matters not just the ending.
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Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.
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A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a…
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Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we…
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If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves…
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Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their…
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Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure
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There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as…
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The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is…
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More Algebraic Quotes
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one of 21 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should…
— Eric Temple Bell
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Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were…
— Mal Peet
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In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation,…
— Eric Butterworth
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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme…
— Rudolf Clausius
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Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly…
— David Mumford
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The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions…
— Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the…
— Daniel Goleman
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I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff…
— Kato
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Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always…
— Thomas Malthus
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