| Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. | |
| Flannery O'Connor, quoted in The Fourth, and By Far the Most Recent, 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, by Robert Byrne. | 280 |
| We were frustrated with computers a decade ago, we are frustrated with them now, and will continue to be frustrated in the future. As long as technology offers enticing new products and services, we will continue to live on the edge of intolerable frustration. | |
| Andrew M. Odlyzko, | 958 |
| My twenty years in my own classroom tells me that children"s significant discoveries are never in the lesson plan. Almost no education outsiders, and a minority of insiders, understand this very basic fact about the way the schools work. | |
| Susan Ohanian, from Garbage Pizzas, Patchwork Quilts and Math Magic. | 759 |
| Children need to do what "real" mathematicians do - explore and invent for the rest of their lives. | |
| Susan Ohanian, from Garbage Pizzas, Patchwork Quilts and Math Magic. | 758 |
| Mathematics is a process of contstructing knowledge, not acquiring it.
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| Susan Ohanian, from Garbage Pizzas, Patchwork Quilts, and Math Magic. | 580 |
| Teaching children how to make choices is risky business, and we are increasingly becoming a society that prefers a pre-packaged curriculum to the vagaries of individual judgment, a society whose leaders confuse a facile declaration of educational standards with a genuine commitment to educational excellence. | |
| Susan Ohanian, quoted in "Pushing a Dead Literacy Can Kill Kids Love of Reading." | 281 |
| The brain/mind is not like anything else. If the maximum weight I can lift with my single arm is 70 lbs., it will also be the same the next day, and the day after, etc. It will take a long time before lifting that weight becomes easier. But with problem-solving techniques it is instantaneous. If I learn how to solve a particular kind of problem, no matter what its degree of difficulty, it is a done-deal. Next time it is no longer difficult. | |
| Tom O'Neill, quoted in The problem of measure invariance by B.D. Wright, M. Huber, T. O'Neill, J.M. Linacre, Rasch Measurement Transactions, 2000, 14: 2, p. 745 | 874 |
| What we are doing in number theory is building theoretical telescopes. | |
| Ken Ono, from Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference XIII, Westfield State College, 4/8/06 | 976 |
| We have enough people who tell it like it is -- now we could use a few who tell it like it can be. | |
| Robert Orben, quoted in Wisdom for the New Millennium edited by Helen Exley. | 1072 |
| The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the appreciation of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word. | |
| W. F. Osgood, quoted in Bulletin American Mathematical Society, | 282 |
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