Education Quote by Ray Dalio

“Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued. This impedes conceptual thinking.”

— Ray Dalio

“the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued.”

— Ray Dalio

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

— Peter Abelard

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and…

— Anonymous

The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question…

— Hippolyte Taine

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

— Richard P. Feynman

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of…

— Aristotle

“Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously.”

— Floyd Alburn Firestone

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

— Victor Hugo

“progressive enrichment of children’s intuitions, leaning heavily on their precocious understanding of quantitative manipulations and of counting. One should first arouse their curiosity with…

— Stanislas Dehaene

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

— D.T. Suzuki

“When an official report in the UK was commissioned to examine the mathematics needed in the workplace, the investigator found that estimation was the…

— Jo Boaler