"If I had to design a mechanism for……" — Paul Lockhart
"If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education."
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Paul Lockhart
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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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I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of…
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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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