Algebra Quote by W. W. Sawyer

As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of…

— Lee S Shulman

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

— W. W. Sawyer

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who…

— Immanuel Kant

You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted upon people,…

— Jacque Fresco

Things don't happen for no reason, they happen to teach you something.

— Anonymous

The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms…

— Bertrand Russell

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

— William Hazlitt

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

— Allan Bloom

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another

— Immanuel Kant

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

— Nicholas Mosley