"[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature……" — Paul Lockhart
"[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on."
—
Paul Lockhart
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
24 Quotes by Paul Lockhart
Paul Lockhart has 24 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Mathematics is the music of reason.
-
To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a…
-
Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.
-
It is the story that matters not just the ending.
-
Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.
-
A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a…
-
Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we…
-
If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves…
-
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their…
-
I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of…
-
Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure
-
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as…
See all 24 quotes by Paul Lockhart »
More Curriculum Quotes
This quote is filed under Curriculum Quotes,
one of 142 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees…
— George H. W. Bush
-
I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to…
— Amy Chua
-
Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or…
— Eric Clapton
-
The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is…
— Jon Stewart
-
Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next…
— Craig Kielburger
-
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation,…
— Yehudi Menuhin
-
If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum…
— Randi Weingarten
-
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible…
— George Will
-
While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four…
— Hal Porter
-
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English…
— Richard Dawkins
-
Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how…
— Alice Waters
-
I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods…
— John Dewey
See all 142 Curriculum Quotes »