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“What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model is an image or picture of reality painted with logical symbols instead of with words, sounds or watercolors.”

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John L. Casti

John L. Casti is a renowned author and systems theorist, born in 1943. His works span a wide range of topics including complex systems, predictive models, and scientific philosophy, which have been well-received by both academics and the public. more

“To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.”

“I married someone whom I was close friends with first. I think that was a really good move.”

Thinking Firsts Moving Married Close Friends

Author:Cindy Crawford

“Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics.”

Long Facts Can Do Answers Teaching Exercise Paper Mathematics Math Division Routine Pencils Computation Calculators

Book:Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally

Source: Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally

“He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.”

Life Self Age Wanted Desire Attitude Sacrifice Hero Victory Taste Cost Definitions Rational Heroism Globes Martyr No Point Attainment Self Sacrifice Single Life Wanton

Author:Roland Huntford

“Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.”

Thinking Men Dies Winning Term Sleep Sacrifice Walking Remembered Welsh Lieutenants D Day

Author:Stephen Ambrose

“Classification of Christian children, as they plan it, are to be used as human sacrifice. Where? Within the black mass ceremonies, they will participate in any kind of sexual orgy, some to be kept as sexual slaves.”

Humans Kind Children Christian Used Black Plans Sacrifice Mass Slave Ceremony Classification

Author:Serge Monast

“Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.”

Way Looks Children Teaching Students Delight Treasure

Author:Steven Levy

“How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years?" The answer is. "It's hard to imagine any way in which it hasn't changed.They're immersed in all kinds of stuff that was unheard of 150 years ago, and yet if you look at schools today versus 100 years ago, they are more similar than dissimilar.”

Ifs World Way Years Looks Kind Children Hard Today School Lasts Stuff Answers Imagine Teaching Changed Years Ago All Kinds Versus Unheard

Author:Peter Senge

“Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.”

Way Children School Struggle Teaching Taught

Book:Schools That Learn (updated and revised second edition): A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education

Source: Schools That Learn (updated and revised second edition): A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education

“All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.”

Humans Realizing Born Community Human Beings Teaching Depends Healthy Unique Capacity Teaching And Learning Unique Gifts

Author:Peter Senge

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